Medical Decision Making - AAPC

Medical Decision Making

Jen Godreau, BA, CPC, CPMA, CPEDC

Director of Development & Operations

jenniferg@ February 2012

What's he thinking?

What Is the Table of Risk?

1 of 7 tables in the 1995 and 1997 E/M Documentation and Coding Guidelines.

1 of 3 preliminary tables that you can use along with the problem categories table and the type of data table, to determine the level of decision-making

Table of Risk

Why Should I Use the Sheets?

support for your physician's code selection check your physicians' levels

Watch out: You might have to use a different audit tool for some carriers.

TrailBlazer (Medicare Part B carrier for Texas, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware) has developed its own counting system

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