Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study

Complex billing practices cost the US healthcare system billions of dollars annually. Coding for outpatient office visits [known as Evaluation & Management (E&M) services] is commonly particularly fraught with errors. The best way to insure proper billing and coding by practicing physicians...

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Autores principales: Tran, Jiaxin, Cennimo, David, Chen, Sophia, Altschuler, Eric L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2013
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3742841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23941987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v18i0.21455
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Sumario:Complex billing practices cost the US healthcare system billions of dollars annually. Coding for outpatient office visits [known as Evaluation & Management (E&M) services] is commonly particularly fraught with errors. The best way to insure proper billing and coding by practicing physicians is to teach this as part of the medical school curriculum. Here, in a pilot study, we show that medical students can learn well the basic principles from lectures. This approach is easy to implement into a medical school curriculum.

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