How to Crack the E/M Code of Physician Documentation

Have you ever wanted to know what a physician means when they document using certain words, phrases, orders, and clinical plans? Well, now you’ll have your chance to get inside an M.D.’s head. In my upcoming webinar, you’ll learn the physician’s perspective on how documentation and medical necessity play into appropriate coding and compliance for these E/M services.

Coders and auditors are valuable players in a healthcare organization’s compliance and revenue cycle operations. Additionally, the OIG wants a physician or other clinically trained person to be involved in audits, too.

“Coders and auditors are valuable players in a healthcare organization’s compliance and revenue cycle operations. Additionally, the OIG has recommended that a physician or other clinically trained person also be involved in audits: “The individuals from the physician practice involved in these self-audits would ideally include the person in charge of billing (if the practice has such a person) and a medically trained person (e.g., registered nurse or preferably a physician (physicians can rotate in this position).”

Understanding a physician’s perspective on Evaluation and Management (E/M) services is essential to proper coding, billing and compliance operations.

Tune in to my upcoming webinar, See E/M Coding Compliance from a Physician’s Perspective, to learn how a physician thinks about the words, phrases, and concepts in the 1995 and 1997 E/M documentation guidelines. It is true that physicians need to document, but it is also true that coders and auditors need to understand what certain words, phrases, orders, and clinical plans mean when a physician uses and documents them.

In this webinar you’ll learn how to decipher the 1995 table of risk phrase, “Parenteral controlled substances” for high risk, know when a presenting chief complaint of “a headache” could be high risk, understand physician speak for accurate coding and billing.

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