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The OIG has added more items to their work plan in August (2018). Let’s take a quick look at some of the areas they will be scrutinizing.

For fun, let’s take a short quiz. Would you say that the following scenarios would be coded as a new or established patient?

It’s always interesting to hear a doctor’s perspective on compliance, but it’s even more interesting when that doctor happens to be the OIG’s Chief Medical Officer. I had the pleasure of hearing her, Julie Taitsman, MD, JD, speak at the HCCA’s Regional Compliance Conference this May in New York...

When most of us hear “False Claims Act,” we usually think of the Federal False Claims Act (FCA).

Attendees of our recent webinar, An Expert's Tips and Best Practices for Using 99211, had a lot questions about the use of the 99211 code that we didn't have time to answer during the presention. As promised, here are the answers to the questions we didn't get to.

Great News: Due to popular demand you'll have the option to purchase 1 CEU for our upcoming webinar. And, as always, you can also attend this webinar free of charge. Now, let’s talk about 99211.

Many of you posted some great questions during our webinar, The Five Problem Areas in E/M Audits. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get to all of them.

There can be a lot of ambiguity in E/M coding. Let’s get to the bottom of common problem areas in exam, history, using time to bill, and medical decision-making (MDM), to address misconceptions and answer some important questions related to some of these abstruse topics.