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Wiki Definition of "Legible"

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OK.....I need some help with this one.

I am a coding review nurse for a payor. I sent a review to one of our medical directors. The documentation was completely illegible (so I thought)! Recommended to uphold denial as documentation was illegible. Now, mind you, I am a nurse that has had to decipher what appeared to be ancient heiroglyphics before. If I think it's illegible, it's a pretty good bet that no one outside the medical field would be able to read it.

I was shocked to have this come back from the MD stating "I can read this". Although he agreed to uphold it was for a different reason.

Based on this, I am now starting to question my definition of "legible". Does anyone know of a standard of legibility?

Any thoughts/comments/resources would be helpful! :p

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In a meet from Ingenix the speaker explained if a 5 year old can't read it it's not legible. She was performing audits for medicare and gave us that description.
 
Thanks!

Thanks for the responses.

I always felt like anyone who is capable of reading English should be able to read it, but I wanted to make sure after the response I got from my medical director........
 
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