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EMTALA Coding Case Study

Published on Thu Oct 13, 2016

Sometimes, the EMTALA regulation butts up against billing and coding rules, said compliance expert Duane C. Abbey, PhD in his recent AudioEducator presentation. Take the hypothetical case of “Sara’s Stuffy Nose.” Sara is a Medicare patient who woke up with a stuffy nose. She called her physician this morning, but the answering machine at the clinic indicated that the doctor [...]
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