Question.1470 - Week 2: Discussion - Introduction to the Patient Record - Part 1 99 unread replies.1818 replies. Introduction to the Patient Record - Topic Description A physician sees a patient for a medical procedure and an x-ray. The physician tries to bill for both the medical procedure and the x-ray, however, they forgot to document the medical procedure in the patient's medical record. Can the insurance company refuse to pay for a medical procedure if it isn't documented? Why or why not? Discussion Guidelines: Each week you will have a topic to answer and then respond to at least two classmates. This means, that if you follow the minimum posting requirements you will have one main substantive answer in each thread, and one response to at least two classmates. Altogether 3 posts, 2 of which will be on different days of the week. Be sure to check in if you have questions. Grading rubric for discussion posting per thread: Main post - 10 points (high quality) Response posts - 10 points (total of all responses) Post by Wednesday - 5 points
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