Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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Find Out If Your NPs’ High-Level E/M Reporting Is Above Average

Caution: Don’t use the same code for every visit. Chances are your nurse practitioners (NPs) are performing higher-level E/M services every day. Plus, because these codes are perennial favorites, they sit atop most Medicare claims reviewers to-do lists. To avoid issues down the road, you may want to periodically review if your NPs are documenting and reporting these codes appropriately. [...]
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