hitechelp wrote on Friday, March 16, 2012:
The options list appears to relate to specific periods of time spent in an encounter for billing purposes i.e. (Brief, Limited, Detailed, Extended, and Comprehensive) my question is; Where is the correlation? In other words, Where is the reference that tells us how much time constitutes “Brief” , “Limited”, “Detailed”, etc.? We need this documentation so we can start filling out our billing sheets with the proper CPT Codes.
sriniemr wrote on Monday, May 21, 2012:
By default openemr doesn’t set the time form fee sheet categories,We can only assign CPT code for fee sheet.
-Srini
seenu4043@gmail.com
gutiersa wrote on Monday, May 21, 2012:
1997 Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services (established by Centers for medicare and medicaid services, formerly HCFA-Healthcare finance administration)
visit their website:
or see if this helps:
gutiersa wrote on Monday, May 21, 2012:
I think 1995 gudelines relate to time spent with patient
1997 guidelines is an alternative way to document, since the 1995 guidelines became controversial
a physician can use either/or.
dlauren wrote on Thursday, May 31, 2012:
I agree with gutiersa.
hitechelp wrote on Friday, June 01, 2012:
Thank you Dr G. and Diana.
Your help is much appreciated and has cleared up the confusion at this end.
Searching the CMS Site for this information in the concise format provided by your link, was futile and wasted many hours.