The 2021 Changes Encoding

The 2021 changes encoding tried to capture just that so that you weren't sitting there documenting something that was totally in love. So the only things that a physician will, the treating physician really needs to document themselves are the medical decision making in your treatment plan and then you take your code. The one technicality that has not been totally addressed if you ask a coder they'll say if you did it the day before the week before doesn't go down. It should all be within the same day of the actual visit. That being said, nobody has a stopwatch out.