The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology asked the OIG to prepare a report examining how Medicare physicians use EHRs to assign and document E&M service codes. The report found that 57 percent of Medicare physicians use an EHR, and 90 percent of them use their systems to document E&M services.
Despite the high level of EHR use, physicians still assign those codes manually. This could mean that physicians are undercoding services that could qualify for a higher pay rate.
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