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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2013-08-01
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| author | Jiaxin Tran David Cennimo Sophia Chen Eric L. Altschuler |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-dde0c3948cf7432698944c38073e5eb72022-12-22T03:02:19ZengTaylor & Francis GroupMedical Education Online1087-29812013-08-011801210.3402/meo.v18i0.21455Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot StudyJiaxin TranDavid CennimoSophia ChenEric L. AltschulerComplex 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.www.med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/download/21455/pdf_1billing and codingevaluation and management servicescomplianceeducationnew curricular material |
| spellingShingle | Jiaxin Tran David Cennimo Sophia Chen Eric L. Altschuler Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study Medical Education Online billing and coding evaluation and management services compliance education new curricular material |
| title | Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study |
| title_full | Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study |
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| title_short | Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study |
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| topic | billing and coding evaluation and management services compliance education new curricular material |
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