BC Advantage - 2024 Issue 8
Auditing Surgical Services
While Evaluation and Management (E/M) auditing continues to be the industry favorite for professional medical auditors in this field, there are several reasons and opportunities to audit surgical services. However, even though many surgeons spend a fair amount of office time in consultation with prospective new patients, their E/M activity is often exceeded by the time they spend on-call and performing global surgical services. This presents an opportunity for medical auditors to take a closer look at surgeons' work. For auditors who are interested in reviews of surgical services, the overall methodology is the same: random...
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