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Watch For Cloned E/M Documentation or Suffer OIG's Scrutiny

Published on Tue Feb 26, 2013

Always crosscheck your EMR entries to avoid unnecessary surprises. If your documentation for E/M services provided by your pulmonologist is strikingly similar from case to case, you’re risking audit trouble, as the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is hot listing cloned documentation in 2013. In the 2013 Work Plan, released in October 2012, the OIG indicates that it intends to go [...]
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