The Teaching Physician Rule: A Blessing or a Curse

Compliance Conversations by Healthicity

Back in February, CMS announced changes that seem to allow medical students a lot more freedom to document a patient’s medical record. Which could sound like a dream to physicians who might be thinking that the students will help ease the heavy burden of bureaucracy, but auditors are a little worried. Auditors are going, “Wait, hold on, we’ve got to really look at this before we jump the gun.” I spoke with expert compliance auditor, Charla Prillaman, who’s lived and breathed auditing for decades. The hard part, it turns out, isn’t understanding the new rule; the hard part is re-educating doctors. Tune into our latest episode of Compliance Conversations, The Teaching Physician Rule: A Blessing or a Curse, to learn the: New Specifics of Student Documentation for E/M Services and HPI, Dangers of Improper Documentation Teaching Physician’s Responsibility to Verify and Attest to Student Documentation.