After the 1995 DGs for E/M services was written, what changed in the 1997 DGs for E/M services?
a. The 1997 DGs provided more detailed guidelines for the language in which the medical record documentation of the E/M service should be written.
b. The 1997 DGs provided more detailed guidelines for how long the patient should wait for the clinician during an E/M service.
c. The 1997 DGs provided more detailed guidelines for the physical examination during an E/M service.
d. The 1997 DGs provided more detailed guidelines for the amount of time spent by the clinician during an E/M service.
Question 2
Medical documentation should be
a. alphabetically listed because order is important, and all records should make sense.
b. complete, thorough, and legible so that anyone can read the document and understand the story of the patient's health and disease.
c. written in English regardless of what language the patient or the clinician happen to speak.
d. typed and never handwritten.
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