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标题：Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study
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作者：Jiaxin Tran ; David Cennimo ; Sophia Chen 等
期刊名称：Medical Education Online
电子版ISSN：1087-2981
出版年度：2013
卷号：18
期号：1
页码：1-2
DOI：10.3402/meo.v18i0.21455
摘要：Jiaxin Tran a , David Cennimo b , Sophia Chen c & Eric L. Altschuler a* a Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Rutgers New Jersey Medical School , Newark , NJ , USA b Department of Medicine and Pediatrics Rutgers New Jersey Medical School , Newark , NJ , USA c Department of Pediatrics Rutgers New Jersey Medical School , Newark , NJ , USA * Eric L. Altschuler , Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA. Email: [email protected] 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.