Surgical Procedural Essay

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to use a rubber stamp for the physician’s signature on a preauthorization form.
“Telephone PAs are not approved for services that can otherwise be authorized in writing, such as routine office visits; trend events, such as specialized therapies and continued home health care services; elective surgeries; retroactive requests for non-emergency services; and extension of existing PAs.” Furthermore, there is plenty of required information that comes along with filling out a preauthorization form. The requirements are as follows: patient’s information, requesting provider’s information, rendering provider’s information, preparer’s information, medical diagnosis, assignment category, date of services (from start to end), procedural codes, modifiers, requested services, taxonomy, POS codes, the number of units and dollars, notes, and finally, a signature including current date of the qualified practitioner. “Providers should retain photocopies of the Indiana Health Coverage ...

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