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2 Chest Pain Examples Show How Documentation Changes HPI Level

Published on Thu Mar 10, 2016

Don't let counting duration drag you into error territory. To succeed at E/M coding, you have to master all the individual pieces that add up to an E/M level. One of those pieces is history of present illness, also known as HPI. Getting HPI too high puts you at risk of overcoding and exposing your practice to auditors. Getting HPI [...]
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