tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2019 Issue Q4

Documentation: Know the Dangers of Cloned Notes

Hint: Do not assume your EHR is flawless. There’s no denying that the advent and adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs) have streamlined healthcare. For some practices, the convenience the software promises sometimes invites lax documentation procedures, especially if staff are tempted to autofill instead of entering new notes. Details: Payers are on the lookout for cloned notes, or health records that are overly similar (or exactly similar) among patients and encounters. “It’s becoming an issue that you could potentially see costing you a recoupment in your practice,” warns Terry...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.