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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management and Clinical Documentation Integrity To Avoid Coding Disasters

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You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. Above all, it’s vital to educate your staff on accurate medical coding.

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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management and Clinical Documentation Integrity To Avoid Coding Disasters

Relias

You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. Above all, it’s vital to educate your staff on accurate medical coding.

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Does the Hospital Price Transparency Rule Increase Your Audit Risk?

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As a result, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public rule on price transparency requirements for hospitals came into effect on January 1, 2021. An executive order passed in 2019 directed the Department of Health and Human Services to create new guidelines to help reduce healthcare costs.