October 28, 2022 | By Brenda Edwards, CPC, CDEO, CPB, CPC-I, CEMC, CRC, CMRS, CMCS We are all excited about the upcoming 2023 E/M changes, aren’t we? Well, I can say, as a coder and auditor, I am! I’ve been in this E/M world for about 35 years. Things were easy prior to 1995,…
The 2021 documentation guidelines for INPATIENT services will be effective on January 1st, 2023, and we hope you’re ready! What I want to address in this post relates to the middle column; Data. This has proven to be a problem in the office setting, which was our first rollout, and I can tell you, I…
October 7, 2022 | By J. Paul Spencer, CPC, COC Early September marked my 33rd year on the administrative side of healthcare. This followed my 56th birthday in April when I officially entered the realm of “pushing 60”. Once you get to be my age, the reaction to my opinion falls into one of…
August 19, 2022 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT Training techniques used from the 2021 Documentation Guidelines training and implementation may be helpful with training for these updates as well, even though these updates relate to different types and places of service. However, a lesson learned from 2021 was that education,…