Welcome to NCMS Rounds, a new video series focused on your questions, challenges, and issues affecting physicians, PAs and medical practices. Let’s first talk downcoding!
Thank you to those who contributed questions for this episode!
Here’s what you asked:
- What is downcoding?
- What is the legality of downcoding?
- How prevalent is downcoding?
- What is the economic impact on small rural practices?
- What steps can we take to prevent or recognize downcoding within a practice?
- Why are only diagnosis codes becoming the basis for downcoding?
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