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Did you know? Over six million patients and carers have benefited from palliative services in community-based and hospital settings to date. Simultaneously, remarkable claims of cost savings and decreased resource utilization from large palliative care programs have solidified its position as a high-value, low-cost, patient-centered method to care for those with serious disease nearing the end of life. Not only this, but palliative care physicians will be expected to stay on top of things, ensuring that services are properly billed, coded, and reimbursed. This necessitates the palliative care physicians to be knowledgeable about the concerns and obstacles of specialty-specific billing and coding. This improvement in understanding begins with recognizing frequent two errors in  palliative care coding  and applying realistic and targeted solutions which are as follows: Confusing ICD and CPT Codes Many practitioners are perplexed by ICD-9/ICD-10 codes and CPT codes, which can lea...