Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study
Complex billing practices cost the US healthcare system billions of dollars annually. Coding for outpatient office visits [known as Evaluation & Management (E&M) services] is commonly particularly fraught with errors. The best way to insure proper billing and coding by practicing physicians...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2013-08-01
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| Series: | Medical Education Online |
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| Online Access: | http://www.med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/download/21455/pdf_1 |
| Summary: | Complex billing practices cost the US healthcare system billions of dollars annually. Coding for outpatient office visits [known as Evaluation & Management (E&M) services] is commonly particularly fraught with errors. The best way to insure proper billing and coding by practicing physicians is to teach this as part of the medical school curriculum. Here, in a pilot study, we show that medical students can learn well the basic principles from lectures. This approach is easy to implement into a medical school curriculum. |
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| ISSN: | 1087-2981 |