“How to Get All the 99214s You Deserve” by Emily Hill [October 2003, page 31] was accurate and illuminating. However, the coding guidelines for 99214 remain cumbersome and inefficient. In my ...

Start from the presenting problem to get to the right code faster. Evaluation and management (E/M) coding isn't hard; it just seems that way. It seems hard because it's typically taught “from the top ...