Podcast: Crossfire: The Balance Between Diagnostic Testing and Critical Care

12/17/2025- Carrie Ford, CNCT specialist II interviews Michael Andary, MD and Nassim Rad, MD on the balance between diagnostic testing and clinical care — when it’s appropriate to add an Evaluation and Management component to the EMG, and when it’s more appropriate to keep the study purely diagnostic. 37 min

AANEM supports appropriate billing of E/M and EDX services on the same day when a significant, separately identifiable E/M service is provided and documented, as outlined in its position statement ‘Billing for Same Day Evaluation and Management and Electrodiagnostic Testing.’ This statement describes five clinical scenarios in which reporting both an E/M code and EDX codes for the same patient, same date of service is medically appropriate.

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