The following questions and their answers have been added:
1. When providing the clinical summary as part of an office visit to meet the measure “Clinical summaries provided to patients or patient-authorized representatives within 1 business day for more than 50 percent of office visits,” can a provider determine whether to include information that was not changed or addressed during the visit?
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2. When creating a clinical summary as part of an office visit to meet the measure “Clinical summaries provided to patients or patient-authorized representatives within 1 business day for more than 50 percent of office visits,” do all of the information elements specified by CMS for a clinical summary need to be individually listed?
Read the answer here.
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