Coding Confidence Undermines Practice Return Office visit, consultation and hospital code utilization by your practice can be easily measured against national benchmarks for your specialty. Wouldn’t you like to know how you compare to your colleagues? A routine part of our practice review process makes this comparison to dollars lost or gained from your coding habits. Our consultants are doing this each year for hundreds of physicians in our continuing client database. What are your coding habits? Undercoding - If you undercode, you short yourself. If you assign a lower code level than supported by appropriate chart documentation, you’re really penalizing yourself by not being properly reimbursed for the work you perform. Overcoding - If you overcode, someone else may want to talk to you. In eight out of ten of our practices reviews, we find doctors often penalize themselves in applying evaluation and management services codes. In our recent review of a cardiology practice, our fee analysis revealed they could have realized an additional $96,000 in doctor profit by more properly coding office visits, hospital visits and consultations. With proper training and ongoing education of all the doctors and clinical staff, they’re now well on their way to receiving the additional income. You could be losing thousands of dollars by undercoding. Give us the opportunity to help you fix that.