tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2005 Issue 3

Bonus Question: Improve Your Prescription Drug Documentation

Find out what CMS has to say about the management options category Calculating a patient's risk level helps the physician determine the appropriate medical decision-making level and avoids down-coding E/M visits. But all this work won't mean a thing if you don't understand the Table of Risk's management options category. "One area of the Table of Risk that has been hotly debated by coding professionals is the meaning of the term 'Prescription Drug Management,' which is listed as moderate risk in the management options category," says Jennie L. Campbell, consulting senior manager with Pershing Yoakley &...

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