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A physician performs a complex consultation that clearly warrants a high-level E/M code. However, the scribe's documentation is brief and lacks sufficient detail about the provider's thought process and the complexity of data reviewed. As a result, the medical coder can only assign a lower-level code. This situation is an example of:
Correct Answer:
Downcoding

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