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To the Editor: We — physicians and Medicare — have a shared responsibility for the nearly $20 billion that will be spent in 1999 for evaluation and management services. The article by Brett (Dec. 3 issue)¹ on new guidelines for coding physicians' services and the accompanying editorial by you and Angell² shed little light on how to create workable guidelines for documenting evaluation and management services. These guidelines are necessary to help physicians bill correctly and to enable the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to pay appropriately for these services.

Your assertion that HCFA was considering moderating the guidelines in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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