MedAbbrev, now by innoviHealth, has been the industry standard for medical abbreviations and acronyms since 1983. Quick and easy access for hospitals, providers, coders, transcriptionists, students and researchers to over 75,000 entries. With clear and accurate standardization that is always current, medical professionals can reduce the chance of error stemming from misunderstood abbreviations.
Benchmark of the Week: NP vs. PA E/M level selection, 2009-2010
Who picks more high-level E/M codes, nurse practitioners (NPs) or physician assistants (PAs)? These charts examine the ratio of new and established patient E/M levels by NPs and Pas, comparing 2009 data to recently released 2010 data. NOTE: Incident-to services billed by non-physician practitioners (NPPs) appear as additional physician utilization in CMS claims data, thus the NPP services in this data do not include those that were billed incident-to.
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