Coding Errors:
CMS: Pulmonologists Logged Sky-High Initial Hospital Visit Error Rates
Published on Wed Jun 21, 2017
Avoid making the same mistakes these doctors made. You see a patient in the hospital and perform her initial workup, then report the appropriate E/M code. Easy, right? Not exactly. According to Medicare's most recent error rate data, pulmonologists logged among the highest improper payment rates for initial hospital visits. Background: CMS issued its "Appendices for the Medicare Fee-for-Service 2016 [...]