An Interview with a Physician
As much of a team as a physician and coder should be, it is rare to get them to sit down together in a room and talk over the issues of the day.
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Don't Be Afraid - Shadow!
When you think about your "typical" day, what are the first things that come to mind? E-mails? Meetings? Phone calls? Reports? Performance Reviews?
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Physician Compliance Auditing
When you were asked as a young child what you wanted to be when you grew up, you talked about being a teacher, a baseball coach, a performer, or a doctor. I'm fairly certain I, for one, never said I wanted to audit physician documentation when I grow...
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THE BELL CURVES HAVE SHIFTED
With the introduction and now continued implementation of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), it's more important than ever to make certain that the documentation supports the individual level of service for each patient being seen. With the creatio...
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Coding High!
"I never code a level five (5) service. I don't want to be audited." "All of my patients are complicated, I never code anything under a level four (4); most new patients are easily 99205 or 99245. They are very involved."
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Modifier -25: OIG watches, Payers may not pay - Providers don't know what to do!
When the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) comes out with its report on what issues it has concerning the Medicare program, everybody is eager to read it. Payers (Medicare carriers in particular) want to know if they are appropriately processing ...
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