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tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2003 Issue 1
OIGs 2003 Work Plan Is Now Available on the Web
The U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released its Work Plan for 2003, which targets those areas of physician billing it intends to watch most closely in the next 12 months. As in years past, the plan focuses scrutiny on E/M services claims and in particular, consultations as well as services and supplies reported "incident-to" physicians' services. Continued interest in these areas reveals the ongoing difficulty physicians and coders have when documenting and reporting such services.
Among its stated goals, the OIG intends to "identify physicians with aberrant coding patterns, specifically coding disproportionately high volumes of high-level...
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