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    Wiki Question about seeing minor patients without their parents/legal guardians

    We are from a private practice family medicine office in rural Georgia, for background. What are your recommendations for creating office policy for seeing (or not seeing) minors whose parents or legal guardians are not present? It seems the state law on this is muddled as providers are not...
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    Wiki Guidelines concering payable diagnosis and provider choices

    Is there a citation that states that an electronic health record cannot limit choices for ICD-10 diagnosing? Is it ethical to only give providers access to diagnosis codes that you know are "payable"? I am really looking for rules, guidelines or statutes that support diagnosis the problem...
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    Wiki What are the rules regarding inactivating patients in your EMR?

    Can anyone direct me to where I can find info regarding whether it is or is not permissible to inactivate a patients chart and how long you have to wait to do this? I know that (in my state at least) if you haven't seen a patient in three years they are no longer considered your patient. But if...
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