signs it electronically. That's it. He's done in less than a minute and
we're ready to bill. There's no more chasing down the surgeon to con-
firm a code or decipher what happened during surgery.
We also capture more accurate billing information. For example,
removing a skin lesion
smaller than 2 cm
requires a specific
code for a smaller
reimbursement than if
we'd removed a com-
plex specimen.
Because our EMR sys-
tem immediately cap-
tures the measurement
of a larger lesion at the
point of care and auto-
matically records it in
the op note, we're
much more likely to
code appropriately for
the case and bill for the
higher reimbursement.
4
Easier
quality
data
reporting
Recording and report-
ing quality outcomes
data is required for sur-
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