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Ignoring PFSH Details Will Set You Back by More Than $70 Per Encounter

Published on Wed Jul 31, 2013

Hint: Don’t neglect history captured in previous visits to complete your PFSH. While your pulmonologist is undertaking an evaluation and management of a patient and not including all details of past, family and social history (PFSH) in the patient documentation, you might end up downcoding the E/M service thus compromising on deserved revenue. Determine the Level of PFSH For coding [...]
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