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CMS Offers Big Change to Students' E/M Documentation Rules

Published on Fri Mar 16, 2018

New policy will alleviate "double documentation" issues for teaching physicians. If your gastroenterologists are teaching physicians, then you're definitely familiar with this scenario: The medical student documents the E/M service performed - and then the teaching physician has to re-document every element of it afterward. This double-documentation requirement has been a thorn in the side of many practitioners nationwide, but [...]
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