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So now that we have a few months under our belts, let's contribute some stuff to help enable higher levels of coding. No need for disclaimer about doing dumb unethical stuff.
Let's start - stress/demand that referring docs ALWAYS send recent labs along with their own note for patients regardless of referring pathology. Obviously diabetics is the easy one. Referral note + Hba1c + another lab relevant like BUN/creatinine is the 3 data points to support level 4 billing. Something as simple as them not sending labs can make higher billing harder. And more importantly it's good medicine.
Let's start - stress/demand that referring docs ALWAYS send recent labs along with their own note for patients regardless of referring pathology. Obviously diabetics is the easy one. Referral note + Hba1c + another lab relevant like BUN/creatinine is the 3 data points to support level 4 billing. Something as simple as them not sending labs can make higher billing harder. And more importantly it's good medicine.