http://www.medrants.com/archives/463 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.medrants.com/archives/463/comment-page-1#comment-513837 The Covert Rationing Blog » Blog Archive » Another Way to Run Afoul of E&M Coding Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:24:06 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2002/09/09/coding-is-impossible/#comment-513837 [...] DrRich does not mean to offend his medical colleagues by claiming they can’t code correctly. He is just stating a fact. There is, in fact, no “correct” way to code, because correct coding is impossible. This verity was proven a few years ago when a group of specialized government-sanctioned coders took a sample of typical doctor-patient visits, coded them according to their own E&M guidelines - and they all got different answers. DB describes this interesting result in an old post, here. [...] [...] DrRich does not mean to offend his medical colleagues by claiming they can’t code correctly. He is just stating a fact. There is, in fact, no “correct” way to code, because correct coding is impossible. This verity was proven a few years ago when a group of specialized government-sanctioned coders took a sample of typical doctor-patient visits, coded them according to their own E&M guidelines – and they all got different answers. DB describes this interesting result in an old post, here. [...]

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