Chapter 2, Problem 2.35.4C

You are a supervisor in the Health Information Services Department of a facility with a policy prohibiting secondary employment with a competitor. One of the employees you supervise is a coder who has just begun the process of repaying student loan debt. The coder has decided that she needs a second job to help defray expenses. She has been offered a position as a coder for one eight-hour shift per weekend at a doctor’s office. This doctor is a member of your facility’s medical staff. Because you addressed the issue of secondary employment in the coder’s entrance interview, she comes to you now seeking advice. How do you respond?

When time is used as a key component in billing an E/M service, the provider must document face-to-face time with the patient and how much time was spent counseling the patient with the family.

You work on a unit that houses 24 patients. The unit takes care of patients requiring surgicalcare.Prepare a 4-week schedule using either the 8-hour shift model or the 12-hour shift model.Schedule your staff to ensure that each full-time staff gets full time hours, and each part timestaff gets part-time hours.