Practice Management Alert

If your physician is stuck in a coding rut, give him the tools to get on track.Do you have one physician on staff who reports level- four E/M codes for every visit? If you thought your practice was immune to this type of error, your self-audit might uncover problems you didn't know you had.If you code the charts of several physicians at the same practice, it may be difficult to notice trends in the physician's coding habits. For instance, one physician might code every visit as a 99214 (Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient ...), but because her charts are mixed in with other physicians' in the practice, you don't notice the pattern because you never code a stack of her charts at the same time. In addition, because many practices now have their urologists do their own E/M coding, you may [...]