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Help Your Provider Capture PMFSH Data With This Handy Worksheet
Published on Fri Jun 10, 2011
Hint: You can have the patients document their own history as long as the physician reviews it. Going through a patient's entire past medical, family, and social history can be time consuming and sometimes is like pulling teeth to get the answers you need. Help your physician get a head start on capturing the details you need for the history components of your E/M coding by using a form like this one provided by Michael A. Ferragamo, MD, FACS, clinical assistant professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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