tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2023 Issue Q4
Reader Question: Find Out What An ‘Independent Historian’ Refers To In Healthcare
Question: I am working as a coder for the first time and one of my providers wrote that they received information about the patient from an “independent historian.” I don’t think the patient is an important political figure or anything, and they’re also still alive, according to their record, so I don’t understand what a historian has to do with their encounter. Is this a medical term? Idaho Subscriber Answer: Yes, an independent historian is a person who provides information or additional context about a patient’s history when the patient cannot. A provider...
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