The 30th edition is based on the 2025 Current Procedural Terminology code changes with guidelines for their application. This edition introduces a range of new codes and guidelines, including new chapter addressing telemedicine code changes, immunization coding updates, addition of codes for reporting contraception services, and update to coding for skin substitute grafts. Available for purchase at https://aap.org/Coding-for-Pediatrics-2025-30th-Edition-Paperback
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6: Evaluation and Management Documentation Guidelines Available to Purchase
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Published:November 2024
"Evaluation and Management Documentation Guidelines", Coding for Pediatrics 2025: A Manual for Pediatric Documentation and Payment, AAP Committee on Coding and Nomenclature, Linda D. Parsi, MD, MBA, CPEDC, FAAP, Kathryn B. Lalor, MD, FAAP, Sheri L. Nemerofsky, MD, FAAP
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Chapter Highlights
General and specific evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines
Concepts of new versus established patient and initial versus subsequent encounter
Reporting single or multiple services when provided in the same setting or in 2 settings with different designations (eg, hospital and nursing facility)
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) terms and definitions used in determining a level of E/M services based on a physician’s or other qualified health care professional’s (QHP’s) total time on the date of an encounter or on medical decision-making (MDM)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines for reporting services provided as a teaching physician, when applicable
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