This online learning course prepares professionals working in a physician practice or non-hospital treatment center to assign procedure codes for visit services provided to radiation oncology patients.
 

   Topics include but are not limited to:

• Evaluation and management (E/M) services provided during a course of treatment
• E/M services following completion of treatment
• Consultations and Medicare guidelines for consult billing
• Office/outpatient visits
• Inpatient and observation services
• Telephone and online services
• E/M services with procedures
• Counseling encounters and prolonged services
• Incident-to services and nonphysician practitioner services

The course discusses coding guidelines, documentation requirements, modifier use, and bundling issues. It includes exercises with real-life scenarios for hands-on learning. At the completion of the course, a scored assessment tests the learner’s comprehension of the material.
 

   This course will take most users about 5 hours to complete.