You Be the Coder:
Understand Consequences of Leading Queries
Published on Mon Jan 21, 2013
Question: Sometimes we coders need to ask a physician to clarify things in a patient’s chart before we can code. Our supervisor is always warning us to not give the physicians "leading" queries. Can you explain that to us?
West Virginia Subscriber Answer: Protocol in most hospitals advises coders (or others in the billing department) to initiate queries [...]