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Prompt Your FP to Provide Accurate History With These 5 Important Tips

Published on Tue Feb 04, 2014

Beware of counting elements in more than one place. When your FP is recording a patient’s history as part of the evaluation and management, you might lose out on deserved money if your physician in not documenting all details recorded, thus downcoding your claim. Although the task seems simple wherein your physician has to obtain all of the details of [...]
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