Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2019 Issue 6
See If Your State Topped the National Averages
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Article Overview
This article explains how to compare your organization’s billing patterns against national and state benchmarks using Medicare-related review data. It is aimed at coding professionals, compliance staff, and practices that monitor evaluation and management utilization, error risk, and audit exposure. The discussion centers on comparative billing reports, related federal review programs, and state-versus-national statistics for office visit coding.
Why This Topic Matters
Benchmarking can help providers understand whether their coding patterns may stand out in Medicare review programs and identify areas that may draw closer scrutiny. The article is relevant for practices tracking audit risk and monitoring high-level office visit utilization across jurisdictions.
What You Will Learn
- How benchmarking data can be used to compare billing patterns across providers and regions.
- Which Medicare review programs are mentioned in connection with office visit coding oversight.
- Why state and national statistics may be useful for evaluating evaluation and management utilization trends.
- What type of publicly available resource the article points readers toward.
Who Should Read This
- Medical coders
- Compliance staff
- Revenue cycle teams
- Physician practices
- Auditors
- Practice managers
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