Coding affects every aspect of the urgent care experience. Accurate coding creates reliable medical records for patients that travels with them throughout their entire lives and provides vital information to future caregivers.Just as important, coding affects your clinics’ success. In this issue, we explore urgent care coding trends over the last five years. We look at ICD-10, CPT®, and E/M codes and share insights into what these trends mean for on-demand healthcare providers.
In this volume, we explore:
- Coding trends over the last five years
- Most common urgent care diagnoses codes
- Regional coding trends
- Bonus: 2017-2018 flu trends