duration of visitNAMCSBackground Specialty-to-specialty variation in use of outpatient evaluation and management service codes could lead to important differences in reimbursement among specialties. Objective To compare the complexity of visits to physicians whose incomes are largely dependent on evaluation...
For level 4 established outpatient visits (99214), the percentage involving high diagnostic complexity ranged from 62% for internal medicine, 52% for family medicine/general practice, and 41% for neurology (specialties whose incomes are largely dependent on evaluation and management codes), to 34% ...
Methods: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Physician/Procedure Summary data from 2010-2021 were utilized to examine office visit CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) new patient visit codes 99201-99205 and established patient visit codes 99211-99215 by urologists. Mean office visit ...