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Use This Advice to Check Your Shared/Split Visit Claims

Published on Fri Aug 19, 2016

Make sure physicians understand documentation guidelines. When you are considering coding an E/M service as split/shared, you must make sure that the providers include notes in the medical record confirming this fact. Additionally, the physician must write a link to the nonphysician practitioner’s (NPP’s) note. Consider this case study from Cynthia A. Swanson RN, CPC, CEMC, CHC, CPMA, senior manager [...]
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