Steps clinicians can take toward proper compensation

Several times throughout European history, the law set limits on what medical services patients could be billed for and some clinicians could not bill for services at all or sue to collect fees, lawyers Mark A. Hall and Carl E. Schneider wrote in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, who added that such laws were never enacted in the United States.
The CDC website indicates there are nearly 72,000 ICD-10 codes. In the 2017 and 2018 alone, nearly 1,000 changes were made to the ICD codes. Next month, AMA will (Read more...)

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