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Stop Forfeiting Level Four and Five E/Ms With 3 PFSH Tips

Published on Fri Jun 03, 2011

Make your physician's job easier by letting the patient or nurse document the history.If your ob-gyn glosses over a patient's past, family, and social history (PFSH), you may be missing out on up to $69 per E/M.Accurately counting the number of PFSH items could result in more money for an encounter, because the top-level E/M codes require PFSH elements in addition to an extended history of present illness, and more than 1 system reviewed. Learn these three quick tips to ensure your physician is capturing, and you're recognizing, every history component the patient mentions.Determine the Level of PFSHFor coding purposes, the history portion of an E/M service requires all three elements -- history of present illness (HPI), review of systems (ROS), and a past, family and social history (PFSH).Therefore, the PFSH helps determine patient history level, which has a great effect on the E/M level you can report. If you  do [...]
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