Podcasts Health Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD What is tough to learn and EVERY doctor could do better?

What is tough to learn and EVERY doctor could do better?

Published: May 30, 2019, 2:34 p.m.

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What is something that is tough to learn and every doctor should know it better than they do?\\xa0 Aside from Kreb\\u2019s Cycle.\\xa0 Billing and coding!\\xa0

Dr. Charlotte Akor is a nationally recognized speaker and physician coach on billing and coding.\\xa0 In this interview, we discuss the necessary history, physical and medical decision making in order to bill and code appropriately and then get into the weeds about proper coding of medical decision making.\\xa0 She uses examples to help explain medical decision making with diagnoses of varying complexity.\\xa0\\xa0 We then get into the time-based codes and how to appropriately document for this.\\xa0 We end with the common modifiers and some newer codes that are frequently missed in the primary care setting.

\\xa0Dr. Akor completed her undergraduate education at Yale, attended medical school at West Virginia University, and completed her ophthalmology residency at SUNY Buffalo.\\xa0 She then completed TWO fellowships, one in ophthalmologic pathology at Emory and one in pediatric ophthalmology at Children\\u2019s Health Care of Atlanta Hospital.\\xa0 She is the former head of the Pediatric Ophthalmology on the faculty of The University of Texas at Houston Health Sciences Center and is now in a hospital-based practice in Abilene, Texas.\\xa0 She is the Amazon best-selling author of Medical Coding Decoded and can be found at CharlotteAkorMD.com.

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