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Headbands Up: Auditors Review Notes Based on Service Date Regs

Just because Medicare cancelled out consult codes doesn’t mean that auditors won’t be looking at past consult claims. It’s your worst nightmare: Not only are you forced to recall poor fashion choices of the past, but you’re facing an audit.…

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5 Documentation Tips for Time-Based E/M Codes

Warning: Auditors are looking to collect paybacks for under-documented codes. One way to boost your coding career is to ethically maximize your practice’s revenue, and one place to look for cash is time-based E/M codes. Lowballing time-based E/M codes because…

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Move On Up From Medical Coder & Into These 9 Jobs

Even in these lackluster economic times, you can rise to new career heights — if you know these job search tricks. Demand for health information management skills is actually growing, and coders who figure out how to to think out of…

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