tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 24

Physician Notes: CMS Updates Teaching Physician Documentation Regs

Plus: Health care reform provisions won't undergo scrutiny.Medicare's teaching physician rules have long confused medical practices, but CMS aims to fix that problem but issuing several updates to its Medicare Claims Processing Manual, with the June 24 issuance of Transmittal 2247.The transmittal offers a clarification to Section 100.1.1 of the Manual, which discusses documentation instructions for E/M services performed by teaching physicians. Specifically, it addresses what the documentation must include when a resident admits a patient to a hospital late at night, but the teaching physician doesn't see the patient until later (often the next...

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