AMA CPT® Assistant - 1997 Issue 10 (October)

Documentation Guidelines Revisited (October 1997)

October 1997 page 11-end Coding Consultation Documentation Guidelines Revisited Documentation Guidelines Revisited In our July 1997 issue we printed the Medicare Documentation Guidelines. The expanded issue consisted of 24 pages and included 14 tables. Since that publication, it has been brought to our attention that some information was inadvertently omitted, as detailed below. Table 1 (page 5)- did not include the last entry, as indicated below: HPI ROS PFSH Type of History Extended Complete Complete Comprehensive Table 2 (page 9)-General Multi-System Exam, the following "bullets" were omitted: Musculoskeletal     Examination of Gait and Station Skin     Inspection of skin and subcutaneous...

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