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Outpatient Billing and Coding

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Generating maximum revenue is important to all medical practices including the ones in academic centers. This chapter will review the basics of outpatient billing and coding and discuss ways to maximize work revenue value units (wRVUs).

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  1. Smith Clinic, Harris Health System, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Lee B. Lu M.D., F.A.C.P.

  2. The Colorado Health Foundation; Uptown Primary Care;, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA

    Scott V. Joy M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P.

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  1. Lee B. Lu M.D., F.A.C.P.
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  1. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

    Lee Bach Lu

  2. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Ernie-Paul Barrette

  3. Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Craig Noronha

  4. University of Vermont, Robert Larner M.D. College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, USA

    Halle G. Sobel

  5. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Daniel G. Tobin

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Lu, L.B., Joy, S.V. (2018). Outpatient Billing and Coding. In: Lu, L., Barrette, EP., Noronha, C., Sobel, H., Tobin, D. (eds) Leading an Academic Medical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68267-9_4

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