From 2018 to 2023, the share of visits coded at higher complexity levels increased across all outpatient settings, including emergency departments (e.g., CPT 99284 increased from 32.5% to 39.6%), urgent care centers (e.g., CPT 99204 rose from 34.0% to 40.6%) and physician offices (e.g., CPT 99214 grew from 38.5% to 45.0%). All ICD-10-CM chapters saw an increase in high-acuity billing, with particularly large gains for eye and ear-related diagnoses in emergency departments, circulatory and hematologic conditions in urgent care and mental health diagnoses in primary care.
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