Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Distinguish the differences between new patient, established patient and consultation
2. Understand that Office/Outpatient visits may be based on either medical decision making or time
3. Recognize which activities count toward total daily time when basing your E/M level on time
4. Analyze the three components of medical decision making and assign the appropriate level of complexity
5. Choose the correct level of service for new and established patients based on documentation

Faculty

Sherill Acevedo, CPC, CPC-1
Manager, BMP Revenue Integrity

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.  None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.