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E/M Corner:

Follow 3 Steps to Proper MDM Determinations

Published on Mon Sep 24, 2012

Our experts' system can help you calculate each individual piece of the medical decision making puzzle.E/M coding has been, and will continue to be, a hot area for payer scrutiny. In fact, a recent OIG study found that physicians increased their billing of higher-level E/M codes across all categories (inpatient, outpatient, etc.) between 2001 and 2010. In fact, the OIG sent CMS a list of 1,700 physicians who were identified as "consistently billing higher-level E/M codes in 2010." That means there is a chance that your payer will review any and all E/M claims your practice is submitting.One of the most complicated and misunderstood areas of level of service calculation is the medical decision making (MDM) portion of an encounter. To determine the level of MDM, you should assign points to each of the three MDM components that your physician performs. The number of points in each category determines the [...]
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