Question

In order for a practice to receive reimbursement for ROS, what must happen?

Answer 1

The ROS( review of systems) it is an inventory of the body systems that is obtained through a series of questions in order to identify signs or symptoms which the patient may be experiencing , the centres of medicare and medicaid services recognizes 14 systems, the review and update may be documented the date and locattion of the earlier ROS in the present encounter, another guidlines is that a staff member may document the review of systems in the medical record as long as there is evidence that the providerr reviewed their documentation, the reference the date of the last review of systems if referring to this in the present note.2) so in order to recieve reimbursement for review for system, the diagnostic code must support the procedure code the diagnostic code it is the translation of written description of diseases, illnesses and injuries into codes from a particular classication, procedure code it is subtype of the medical classification used to identify specific surgical, medical or diagnostic interventions the structure of the codes will depend on the classification.