2004 MGMA Coding Profile Sourcebook

Discover new revenue while avoiding audits. Monitoring your physicians’ evaluation and management (E&M) coding patterns helps you identify undercoding to gain revenue your practice legitimately earned, and detects overcoding, so you can avoid audits of your practice. Analyzing coding patterns is easy with the new Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) 2004 Coding Profile Medical Specialties. This book represents data from practices around the nation and includes the frequency of diagnostic and procedural coding. It shows CPT and ICD-9 diagnostic code information for all patients, by gender, age category and diagnosis – not just Medicare data. Discover new revenue opportunities and keep your practice safe from audits. Evaluate your coding with this MGMA sourcebook for medical specialties. Medical Specialties Allergy/immunology invasive invasive, interventional noninvasive Dermatology Emergency medicine Endocrinology/metabolism Gastroenterology Hematology/oncology Infectious disease Internal hospitalist Nephrology Neurology Occupational medicine Oncology (only) Physiatry Psychiatry Pulmonary medicine Rheumatology