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Chapter in Brief:Chapter in Brief: Doctors are ideally positioned to accurately capture informa-tion from office and hospital visits, not only for documentationpurposes, but also for billing. Although documentation is the basis for Coding , doctors do notalways include enough detail to support accurate codes. Modifiers 25 and 59 are used to signal payers that multipleservices or procedures were provided to a patient on the sameday and that these meet criteria for separate payment. Withoutthese modifiers, the charges may be denied. After taking a basic course on Coding , doctors and their staffshould continually attend seminars to refresh themselves on therules and regulations, which are subject to physicians would be happy to delegate all Coding issues to thestaff, but doctors play an integral rol
THE PHYSICIAN’S ROLE IN CODING www.doctorsdigest.net 45 performed but didn’t document,” says Deborah Grider, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CCS-P, CCP, a …
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