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Don't Let 1 Missing PMFSH Point Cost Your Practice $70 Per Encounter

Published on Wed May 15, 2013

Your provider’s notes about reviewing previously captured history are crucial. One missing piece of missing past medical, family, and social history (PMFSH) could limit your coding on some encounters to level three instead of level four or five E/M codes. Accurately counting the number of PMFSH items could result in more money for an encounter, because the top-level E/M codes [...]
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