tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2018 Issue 6

Compliance: Recent Medicare Audit Shows Where EDs Stand in Terms of Opioid Prescriptions

If your opioid prescription count is higher than average, don't panic, reps say. Many ED providers see patients presenting with pain every day – in fact, the American College of Emergency Physicians reports on its website that 42 percent of ED visits "are related to painful conditions." This often means that patients request - or require - pain medication prescriptions, but because of an increasing number of accidental overdoses of these drugs, physicians must use extreme caution when prescribing them. A new Comparative Billing Report (CBR) from Part B MAC Palmetto GBA outlines some of the national statistics...

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