Regulatory Myths in Medicine

Sustainability

Debunking regulatory myths

The AMA provides regulatory clarification to physicians and their care teams in an effort to aid physicians in their day-to-day practice environment.

Sustainability

How does an extended prescription duration help your patients and your practice?

More than 84% of all office visits to primary care physicians involve medication therapy (CDC, 2016), refilling prescriptions for approximately 12 patients each day who were not otherwise counted as an office visit or condition-specific telephone call (Baron, 2010).

Medicare & Medicaid

CPOE: Is order entry a physician-only EHR task?

Learn how to debunk the myth that only physicians can pend or enter orders through computerized provider order entry (CPOE).

Sustainability

Pain assessments: Are clinicians required to ask patients about pain during every consultation?

The myth: Clinical teams are required to ask patients about their level of pain at every visit, regardless of the reason for the visit.

Physician Health

Who determines where physicians and other health care workers can eat or drink while at work?

There is a perception that the rules regarding where physicians and other health care workers can have food or beverages tend to be overly strict.

CPT®

Are commercial health plans required to adopt revisions to the E/M codes?

This regulatory myth examines if commercial payers are required to adopt the E/M office visit code revisions.

Medicare & Medicaid

Student documentation: Must teaching physicians re-document the EHR work of students?

Medical student documentation is the process of medical students documenting clinical services, including history, physical exam and/or medical decision making, in a patient’s electronic medical record.

Medicare & Medicaid

Ancillary staff: Who can document components of E/M services?

Ancillary staff and/or patient documentation is the process of non-physicians and non-advanced practice providers (APPs) documenting clinical services, including history of present illness (HPI), social history, family history and review of systems in a patient’s electronic health record (EHR).

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Debunking regulatory myths

How does an extended prescription duration help your patients and your practice?

CPOE: Is order entry a physician-only EHR task?

Pain assessments: Are clinicians required to ask patients about pain during every consultation?

Who determines where physicians and other health care workers can eat or drink while at work?

Are commercial health plans required to adopt revisions to the E/M codes?

Student documentation: Must teaching physicians re-document the EHR work of students?

Ancillary staff: Who can document components of E/M services?

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