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Pinpoint Medical Necessity with These Communication Tips

Published on Mon Sep 20, 2021

Frame documentation this way to support your practice’s E/M coding and billing. “Base medical necessity on documentation” sounds really easy and black and white, but what if the clinicians you work with have strong feelings about how medical necessity “should” work? The idea of coders or auditors or other staff members who don’t have clinical training determining the medical necessity [...]
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