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Check the Answers to These 3 E/M FAQs

Published on Tue Apr 09, 2019

Hint: It doesn’t pay to play it safe. It’s easy to focus your coding and billing efforts on your surgical charts – particularly since these services pay at such high rates. However, ophthalmologists are more likely to undergo audits due to their E/M documentation than they are for surgical procedures or diagnostic tests, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. [...]
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