What You Need to Know About Billing Compliance in Academic Medical Centers

Compliance Conversations by Healthicity

I’ve been getting a lot of requests to do a show about coding and billing and I couldn’t think of a better guest than my friend and former colleague, Jay McVean, an expert in billing and coding compliance with the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Starting out, I had to ask: What’s the biggest coding and billing compliance issues in medical school, with faculty, and academic medical centers? This is where McVean’s expertise really shines and it’s an area that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough. McVean explained, “One of the biggest challenges we face in this ever-growing clinical world is that our teaching physicians really must understand who they’re working with...When various people are touching the notes, documenting portions of the visit, at the end of the day physicians are really confused about if they have a TPA situation, or if this is a shared split visit if I’m in the hospital, and how much of the note to document versus an NP or a PA.” From there, we talked about physician pressures and productivity and how it plays into billing and coding compliance. Listen in to our latest episode, What You Need to Know About Billing Compliance in Academic Medical Centers, with expert Jay McVean. In this episode we chat about: Teaching Physician Traps Documentation Issues The Complexity of the Clinical Environment Education and Training Potential EMR Concerns