Emergency Medicine Physician Coding and Facility Coding Resources

Why is accuracy and compliance to accepted standards of documentation in the medical record important? The first and most important reason is to provide patients with appropriate care based on details provided in their medical record. This ensures optimal patient care and allows for excellent patient satisfaction. Another reason for ensuring accuracy and compliance in the medical record is to provide governmental agencies, and any other entity accessing the patient’s medical record accurate and complete information. With improved documentation, collections improve, the risk for unfavorable audit results decreases, and efficiencies are increased in the office with both staff and physician co-workers.

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The 6^th common mistake for revenue capture is relying solely on your EMR to capture the appropriate E/M Level.

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Are you capturing your time based procedure / service codes?

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The 4^th common mistake occurs when your documentation templates are no longer capturing all services appropriately.

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A 3^rd common mistake is the inconsistent interpretation of the point system by the staff. Once the point system is developed, it is imperative for all staff members to accurately and consistently interpret not only how the point system is being used, but also how it was intended to be used.

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As a result of embracing and implementing the BDA program, Deaconess experienced double digit % revenue growth, without a significant increase to its existing patient load.

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10 Benefits from partnering with Bill Dunbar and Associates

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Need to fine-tune your skills at reporting laceration treatment in the ED?

See if you can correctly code these three challenging scenarios and home in on your coding trouble spots.

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The 2^nd most common mistake is that the Facility Point System is not regularly evaluated to capture all services. A point system would be a consistent methodology for assigning an ED Facility Level based on the work performed by the ED staff. An interesting fact is, that to this date, there are no national standards for assignment of hospital Facility Levels.

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