Are you leaving money on the table — or setting up an audit?
A straight-talking hour on office visit E/M coding for primary care NPs, taught by medical coding and billing auditors who have reviewed thousands of these claims from the payer's side of the desk.
What the CMS data shows
The office visit is the most audited code in medicine, and NPs are on the list.
Nurse practitioners rank second in the country for improper payments on established office visits, behind only internal medicine.
in improper payments tied to NP established office visits in the most recent federal report.
of office visits are billed as a 99213 when benchmarks say far fewer should be. Quiet, systematic undercoding.
of E/M errors are incorrect code selection and insufficient documentation. Not fraud, and both fixable.
Figures drawn from the most recent CMS Medicare Fee-for-Service improper-payment reports and independent E/M benchmarking analyses. Exact amounts shift year to year and with the fee schedule; we walk through the current numbers in the training.
What you'll learn
The running order for the hour.
The one rule that sets your level now
What changed in 2021, and why your exam isn't doing what you think it is.
99213 vs 99214, decided on purpose
A simple, repeatable way to land the right level instead of guessing.
Where NPs quietly lose money and take risk
Incident-to, split/shared services, modifiers, and the documentation that defends you.
Live Q&A
Bring your questions and an open mind. Leave with clarity and understanding.
Taught from the payer's side of the desk.
Presented by L.A. Burgess, LLC and The Coding Nurse, LLC, coding and auditing educators with hands-on payer-side review experience across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial plans.
It's free, it's live, and the Q&A is better small.
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