Tune E/M documentation to meet the 2008 guidelines
APC Payment Insider, July 1, 2008
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The 2008 OPPS final rule challenges outpatient facilities to be more exact than ever regarding documentation and coding. This is especially true for the E/M process. Hospitals run into difficulty putting the rule into practice, shedding some cherished but inaccurate beliefs about documentation best practices and widening the circle of responsibility for documentation improvement.
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