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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description 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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spelling pubmed-37428412013-08-14 Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study Tran, Jiaxin Cennimo, David Chen, Sophia Altschuler, Eric L. Med Educ Online Short Communication 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. Co-Action Publishing 2013-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3742841/ /pubmed/23941987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v18i0.21455 Text en © 2013 Jiaxin Tran et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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