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E/M Coding:

E/M Services Aren't Automatically Billable Every Time You See a Patient

Published on Wed Jul 02, 2014

$6.7 billion in financial waste each year causes a massive drain of Medicare resources, says OIG. Whether you’re upcoding an evaluation and management (E/M) encounter or downcoding it, you’re still placing your practice/facility at risk for audits or worse. The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will be scrutinizing the accuracy of your claims in the year ahead. The government [...]
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