--- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A "derivative work" includes some portion > > of the original verbatim and that should be avoided. > > > > > In order to work for billing the codes themselves would have to be carried > over from the CPT system. Thus making any attempt to "re-describe" CPT codes > a derivative work and largely useless. > > -FT >
The real problem is integrating the needed coding seemlesly into the user of the EMR's workflow so that they can see the patient, do the documentation from a medical standpoint, but also generate and submit the required reimbursement claim at the same time, preferably right at the point of service. Unfortunately the world wide Tower of Babel of incompatable reimbursement systems and jurisdictions over them will probably limit us to doing this on only a local level.
