MedicareFind tip: Know when to use quotation marks for your FIND!
Medicare Weekly Update, July 7, 2009
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What’s the difference between physician supervision and “physician supervision”? It turns out, quite a bit.
Performing a find for physician supervision (without quotation marks) means MedicareFind will look for documents that have ‘physician’ and ’supervision’ in them–they could be right next together, as in “physician supervision,” or very far apart, as in “the physician must provide supervision of the…” Performing a find for “physician supervision,” on the other hand, means that MedicareFind will look for documents where the full phrase “physician supervision” appears–in these documents, you’ll find the words appearing right next to each other at least once.
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