MedicareFind tip: Narrow in as you go

One frustrating aspect of searching for information on government web sites (e.g., CMS or the OIG) is that we often have to choose where to look before choosing what to look for. Isn’t that backwards? Typically, I don’t think to myself, ‘I need a transmittal’; what I think first is, ‘I need information on condition code 44‘… Deciding where to find this information often makes sense only after I have the topic in mind!

Unfortunately, the government web sites are often not organized by topic categories. So, for example, there are separate web pages for transmittals (and then separate pages within that for each year!) and MLN Matters articles. Browsing through these to find what I need is a daunting task.

A great feature of MedicareFind is that it mimics the thought process of choosing the topic first and then the type of information. You can just go to the home page and conduct a FIND by typing your topic into the query box. After returning your results, you can drill down into various document types, sources, or timeframes.

So when you type in your initial terms, keep in mind that you can narrow down your results later. You don’t have to specify in your query where the information should be or when it should be from–you can focus on the topic itself and then use MedicareFind’s filters to narrow down from there.

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