E/m specialty exam
Hi I was hoping someone can help me out here. I want to take the E&M certification. My coworker took the test and she has some questions. Can you help us with suggestions or practice test. Here is her email to me below she has some concerns, maybe you can help us or steer us in the right direction. Thank you!
Results: FAIL - Schedule Retake
Score: 62%
Areas of Study: • Audit : 65%
• EM : 57%
• EM Category : 36%
• HCPCS : 0%
I am not sure how to break this down. What did I audit? I think there were only one or two questions with HCPCS, and the E/M cat I am guessing the questions were regarding consults. “by law� if it is not referenced in the note that the pt was referred to by Dr such and such, it is not a consult :because they didn't document�, so on some, they wrote on top “CONSULT� but in the letter, they didn't reference the referring dr, so I chose it to be an initial visit. I am going to write the study guide authors for clarification. There were no questions in the study guide about NPs and teaching MDs, so I will ask if they can provide some examples. They weren't on the practice exam either, and being you really don't know which ones were right or wrong, I cannot be sure that was it, but it would have to be…