Medicare recently released its utilization statistics for Part B services that it paid in 2006. You can use these figures to compare your coding patterns to other physicians in your medical specialty; in particular you can compare your E/M coding patterns to your peers. Use this anaysis to look for lost revenue opportunities but also use it as part of your compliance review activities.
To access the statistics, go here:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicarefeeforsvcpartsAB/04_medicareutilizationforpartb.asp
