tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2000 Issue 3

Deciding Whether Use of ED Superbill Will Improve Billing

By Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, president ofMedical Management Solutions Inc. in Jacksonville, Fla. With compliance concerns at an all-time high, emergency physicians are attempting to control potential errors from coding staff through use of a superbill or coding charge sheet. Although this concept is not new to emergency medicine, its resurgence bears discussion of the pros and cons of using such a short-cut method to determine codes and charges.How Physicians Can Address the Issue Having physicians involved in the code assignment through ongoing coding training can be beneficial. Many groups believe that by assigning the actual billing code...

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