tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2022 Issue Q2

E/M Coding: Follow 5 Simple Steps to Benchmark Your ED Practice’s Way to Precise Coding

Where do your emergency physicians stand when it comes to national trends? Nearly every ED staff member has heard that insurance auditors look at coding trends and bell curves to find “outliers,” but it’s hard to know exactly what that means in the scope of your day-to-day operations. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to ensure that your ED practice is coding accurately, and one such step involves benchmarking. Background: In essence, benchmarking creates a standard against which you can compare your own data to historical internal results or industry standards. Once you know what...

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