Evaluation and Management:
Locate 3 Key Pieces of Critical Information Before Coding Based on Time
Published on Fri Feb 08, 2013
Key: Don’t rely on ‘I spent more than an hour with the patient’ provider comments. If you are coding office visits based on the time your urologist is spending with a patient, make sure he is documenting three key elements – and we aren’t talking about history, exam, and medical decision making. Otherwise, you’ll face payer take-backs, or worse. [...]