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Reimbursement Refresher:

Watch for Shifts from Medical Direction to Supervision and What It Means to Your Fees

Published on Wed Dec 17, 2014

Experts say documentation of time is a common – but fixable – error.  Your anesthesiologists may prefer to work on cases that qualify as personally performed or medically directed because they can provide more focused care -- plus reporting that way helps your practice’s bottom line. When you report medical supervision, however, your coding and pay change, so brush up [...]
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