Undercoding: Answer the $56 Question -- Are You Downcoding Your E/M Visits?

You're not only losing revenue -- you're also coding improperly.

National insurer data from previous years shows that medical practices undercode E/M claims to the tune of over $1 billion annually -- that's money that physicians could have collected based on their documentation, but forfeited because they reported a lower-level code than they should have. But remember that your responsibility as someone who [...]

- Published on 2011-07-22