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Documentation:

Know What’s Necessary to Prove Necessity

Published on Mon May 15, 2023

Critical: Find out what documentation is required. Medical necessity is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the healthcare industry. As a coder, you understand that medical necessity is important, but how deep is your understanding of its impact on coding? Here, we’ll examine the definition and outline services with examples that most payers will expect you to [...]
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