Level of Billing as a Function of Resident Documentation and Orthopedic Subspecialty at an Academic Multispecialty Orthopedic Surgery Practice

摘要

Documentation, coding, and billing for physician-patient encounters have evolved over time and have significant variability. Appropriate and complete documentation of these encounters can contribute to the financial viability of private and academic medical centers. The objectives of this study were to assess the financial effect of documentation on billing and to compare the authors' institution's distribution of billing level compared with Medicare normative data.