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ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert

Four tips to perfect your E/M choices

Published on Fri Mar 08, 2019

If indecision about medical decision-making is throwing your E/M reporting for a loop, consult these four helpful documentation hints to simplify your code selections. 1. Ask the physician to list complicating factors. These could include comorbidities, other chronic conditions the patient may have, medications the patient is already taking, or adverse reactions the patient had to previous medications. For example, [...]
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