Year: 2016
Resolution Number: 68
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status: Complete
Author(s): Jayne E. Courts, MD
Sponsor: Domenic Federico, MD
On behalf of: Kent County Delegation
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to lobby the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to discontinue denial of payments and effects of the RAC audits due to the absence of specific words in the chief complaint when the note provides adequate documentation of the reason for the visit and establish new AMA policy.
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to lobby the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to discontinue denial of payments and effects of the RAC audits due to the absence of specific words in the chief complaint when the note provides adequate documentation of the reason for the visit and establish new AMA policy.
Fiscal Note: NULL
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