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Archive > April, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 4

Coding & Billing

Let It Be Written, Let It Be Done

Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA

Is it a daily struggle getting your physicians to precisely document their procedures? You know the drill: They code what they did, but you code what they documented. The two don't match up, which means they get paid and your facility gets denied. To stress the importance of a physician's documentation meticulously describing the procedure(s) he performed, here are a few new and revised CPT codes for 2007 that require precise documentation for you to be reimbursed.

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