Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Charting with Purpose: Precision Strategies for Accurate Coding and Malpractice Defense

Jeff Willis, MD Urgent Message: A well-told story explaining your thought process during a patient encounter will contain all the elements required for accurate coding. Attorneys are less likely to question care when a logical and complete story is clearly documented. Citation: Willis J. Charting with Purpose: Precision Strategies for Accurate Coding and Malpractice Defense. J Urgent Care Med. 2024; 18(4) 13-16. As a medical legal consultant, I have learned medical malpractice claims are an …

ICYMI: A Rational System for Charting Has Finally Arrived

Remember the fall of last year—when the nation and world pined for an expedient end to 2020, as if such an arbitrary change as turning a page on the calendar could somehow reverse our collective fortune? Unsurprisingly when January 2021 arrived, all our woes were not magically and immediately remedied. In fact, the start of this year was among the most grim in U.S. history: nearly a quarter of a million new cases were being …

Regional Health System Integration: Charting Your Course

Lee A. Resnick, MD, FAAFP These are indeed stormy and transformational times. While no one can seem to agree on the political path to reform, change is nonetheless happening at a rapid pace in health care. Previous efforts to manage health care costs and quality on a national scale sunk at sea (the HMOs and Managed Care Organizations of the 80s and 90s). But the current path to reform appears unstoppable to me, regardless of …