>>Obviously you would know better than me but I am surprised the doc has to do so much admin. Why can't nurses and (ahem) admins do most of it?
One example is that the rules for E/M (evaluation and management) payment codes require direct physician involvement and documentation if they want to be paid. Registering a code unsupported by explicit physician documentation risks a serious fine.
Sorry not to have met you this week.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
