Higher Level Documentation: The DO Difference (2024 AC LIVE)
Learning Objectives:
- In that Doctors of Osteopathy focus on the entirety of the patient. In looking at and treating the patient based on their comments and complaints in their totality, add physician work to any visit. Upon completion, participants will have a better understanding what documentation helps to show this "extra work" done by DO's.
- Upon, completion, participants will be able to, when appropriate, more compliantly document higher levels of medical decision making for the Number and Complexity of Problems Addressed at the Encounter column. This will, potentially, lead to higher levels of service for the visit.
- Upon completion, participants will be able to have more compliant documentation in showing their eligibility to bill the complexity of care code, G2211.
Jill M. Young, CPC, CEDC, CIMC
Principal Consultant
Young Medical Consulting, LLC
Jill Young, CEMC, CPC, CEDC, CIMC, is the founder of Young Medical Consulting a company formed 20 years ago to meet the educational needs of both physicians and their staff. She has over 40 years of medical experience with a diverse background in all areas of the office from billing and coding to clinical, auditing and management. She has been published in a wide range of periodicals and presented over one hundred lectures both in person and via audioconferences and webinars.