Teaching billing and coding to medical students: a pilot study.
Complex billing practices cost the US healthcare system billions of dollars annually. Coding for outpatient office visits [known as Evaluation & Management (E&M) services] is commonly particularly fraught with errors. The best way to insure proper billing and coding by practicing physicians is to teach this as part of the medical school curriculum. Here, in a pilot study, we show that medical students can learn well the basic principles from lectures. This approach is easy to implement into a medical school curriculum.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
Jiaxin
J
Tran
David
D
Cennimo
Sophia
S
Chen
Eric L
EL
Altschuler
D059019:Clinical Coding; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013337:Students, Medical
billing and coding; compliance; education; evaluation and management services; new curricular material