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Don't Overlook Same-Day Critical Care and E/M

Published on Tue Dec 09, 2014

Errors in notes can cost you one service. If you’re coding for both an E/M visit and a critical care service on the same day, by the same physician, for the same patient, you’ll need to glean the medical necessity from the chart before reporting both codes. Without medical necessity, payers will deny part of your claim. Learn from the [...]
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