Diabetes Care Documentation and Coding

This guide was created for physicians and educators seeking proper reimbursement for the medical care of patients with diabetes. The book presents the often complicated documentation decision pathways and explores effective documentation methods.

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This essential guide was created for physicians and educators seeking proper reimbursement for the medical care of patients with diabetes. Endocrinologist Jerome S. Fischer, MD, expertly presents the often-complicated documentation decision pathways and explores such effective documentation methods as paper templates, electronic guides, and counter systems. Best of all, this information is provided with a diabetes care - orientation using the ADA's Standards of Medical Care for Patients with Diabetes Mellitus as the framework for assigning levels of service. Plus, this resource covers: Clinical definitions of history, physical exam, and medical decision-making levels with a diabetes orientation; Decision pathway documentation for new patients, the chronic but stable, chronic but unstable, and chronic with acute problems; Diabetes education, insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring sensors, and more.