E/M Coding: Stop Downcoding E/M Visits, and Add Minimum of $56 to Your Bottom Line

Trap: You might not only be losing revenue -- you're also drawing chance of audit.

National insurer data shows that physicians undercode E/M claims to the tune of more than $1 billion annually. That's money physicians could have collected based on their documentation but missed out on because they reported a lower-level E/M code than they should have. Read on for three reasons to always file claims based on the physician's documentation instead of "playing it safe" with lower-end codes.

1. Staying Low Doesn't Keep You Below Radar

If you shy away from upper level E/M codes because you don't want to [...]

- Published on 2012-01-11