Revenue Booster: Test Your Coding and Billing Knowledge to See Where You're Losing Money
Hint: Detailed notes help you prove medical necessity to appeal denials.
With the high cost of practicing medicine today, can you really afford to throw thousands away? Unfortunately, some practices do that every day by not coding and billing properly. Check out these three questions and their answers, which highlight the income you could be putting in your pocket.
Question 1: You often see patients during the global period of surgeries, but many times the E/M services are for reasons unrelated to the surgeries. Most of the time, you include the visits in the global period. Should you keep...
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