Compliance:
ED Coders: Expect Close Scrutiny on E/M Claims
Published on Wed Jan 02, 2013
EHRs being made the culprit of E/M code abuse. The sharp rise in upcoding of evaluation and management encounters in emergency departments is being attributed to the increase in EHR use by the media and the HHS Office of the Inspector General. In May 2012, the HHS OIG issued a report citing that ED E/M’s were the fifth largest paying [...]