Don’t let cloned documentation sink your coding and compliance efforts.

Win the Battle of the Clones: Don’t let cloned documentation sink your coding and compliance efforts.

By Joyce Will, RHIT, CPC, has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of ICD-9-CM, CPT®, E/M coding, and professional services compliance reviews.

Although Medicare doesn’t have a national policy on the use of
shortcuts (such as templates or copy and paste functions) when physicians
and non-physician practitioners document services in an electronic
health record (EHR), the subject of “cloned notes” continues
to be a hot topic in the compliance arena.

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