April 4, 2022 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT Today, I want to bring you a little educational tidbit on E&M documentation improvement and how to audit those challenging sections of E&M. We’re going to take a look at the third column of our MDM table, the Risk of Complications for…
January 1, 2021 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT While conducting a 2021 E&M Physician Training event for a client, like right in the middle of the session, I had an epiphany. Now maybe you have already had it- but I thought- WOW- we have made the full circle right back around…
January 15, 2021 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT CMS defines critical care as “the direct delivery by a physician(s) of medical care for a critically ill or injured patient. The care of such patients involves decision making of high complexity to assess, manipulate, and support central nervous system failure, circulatory failure, shock-like…