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Great, You’re a Perfectionist. Now What?

I’ve been auditing for almost thirty years. In that time, I’ve learned that auditors are typically extremely detail oriented, which is fantastic.

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Training practitioners to better document their visits seems to spark frustration like nothing else among auditors, so much so that auditing forums are full of auditors asking for tips and tricks of the trade.

Q1: Can a physician and an NPP of the same specialty and the same group are both bill critical care code 99291 if documenting the critical time for the patient?

The number of settlements with the government for issues of non-compliance are on the rise. And experts estimate that most physician practices are making mistakes.

Recently, I talked with Christopher Chandler, a senior consultant at a large medical group in the professional coding and reimbursements department. Christopher explained a whole slew of surgical coding misunderstandings like confusion about how ICD coding works with CPT coding and what to do with...

Compliance and coding are complicated.

One of my favorite sayings is that “bedside manner matters.” This comes from my background as a physician. At the end of the day, being knowledgeable doesn’t mean that you work well with people. As a compliance officer, it’s important that you work well with people.