tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2003 Issue 2
Stamps for Your New TP Documentation
The new teaching physician guidelines mean sparser physician notes. So do stamps now suffice as documentation, in lieu of personally documented attending notes? If you plan to submit TPclaims with stamps to justify your code selection, listen up. A few experts do plan to use new stamps on the documentation, since physicians no longer need to document key elements of the E/M and need only state their presence and review of resident notes. What you need to know is whether these shortened, uniform ways of meeting the documentation requirements suffice for coding compliance. Stamp versus Template Given the new...
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