Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents?
Objective: The healthcare chart is becoming ever more complex, serving clinicians, patients, third party payers, regulators, and even medicolegal parties. The purpose of this study was to identify our emergency medicine (EM) resident and attending physicians’ current knowledge and attitudes about bi...
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| author | Brian Dawson, MD Kelly Carter, MD Kori Brewer, MD Luan Lawson, MD |
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| description | Objective: The healthcare chart is becoming ever more complex, serving clinicians, patients, third party payers, regulators, and even medicolegal parties. The purpose of this study was to identify our emergency medicine (EM) resident and attending physicians’ current knowledge and attitudes about billing and documentation practices. We hypothesized that resident and attending physicians would identify billing and documentation as an area in which residents need further education.Methods: We gave a 15-question Likert survey to resident and attending physicians regarding charting practices, knowledge of billing and documentation, and opinions regarding need for further education.Results: We achieved a 100% response rate, with 47% (16/34) of resident physicians disagreeing or strongly disagreeing that they have adequate training in billing and documentation, while 91% (31/34) of residents and 95% (21/22) of attending physicians identified this skill as important to a resident’s future practice. Eighty-two percent (28/34) of resident physicians and 100% of attending physicians recommended further education for residents.Conclusion: Residents in this academic EM department identified a need for further education in billing and documentation practices. [West J Emerg Med. 2010;11(2): 116-119.] |
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| spelling | doaj.art-080e1ed49044496da530fa34f672d8462022-12-21T22:25:55ZengeScholarship Publishing, University of CaliforniaWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine1936-900X1936-90182010-05-01112116119Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents?Brian Dawson, MDKelly Carter, MDKori Brewer, MDLuan Lawson, MDObjective: The healthcare chart is becoming ever more complex, serving clinicians, patients, third party payers, regulators, and even medicolegal parties. The purpose of this study was to identify our emergency medicine (EM) resident and attending physicians’ current knowledge and attitudes about billing and documentation practices. We hypothesized that resident and attending physicians would identify billing and documentation as an area in which residents need further education.Methods: We gave a 15-question Likert survey to resident and attending physicians regarding charting practices, knowledge of billing and documentation, and opinions regarding need for further education.Results: We achieved a 100% response rate, with 47% (16/34) of resident physicians disagreeing or strongly disagreeing that they have adequate training in billing and documentation, while 91% (31/34) of residents and 95% (21/22) of attending physicians identified this skill as important to a resident’s future practice. Eighty-two percent (28/34) of resident physicians and 100% of attending physicians recommended further education for residents.Conclusion: Residents in this academic EM department identified a need for further education in billing and documentation practices. [West J Emerg Med. 2010;11(2): 116-119.]http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2b52z343ResidencyEducationBillingRelative Value ScaleEmergency Medicine |
| spellingShingle | Brian Dawson, MD Kelly Carter, MD Kori Brewer, MD Luan Lawson, MD Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents? Western Journal of Emergency Medicine Residency Education Billing Relative Value Scale Emergency Medicine |
| title | Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents? |
| title_full | Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents? |
| title_fullStr | Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents? |
| title_short | Chart Smart: A Need for Documentation and Billing Education Among Emergency Medicine Residents? |
| title_sort | chart smart a need for documentation and billing education among emergency medicine residents |
| topic | Residency Education Billing Relative Value Scale Emergency Medicine |
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