How coding can increase your revenue capture
Topics: Coding, Revenue Cycle, Finance, Clinical Documentation, Information Technology
January 26, 2012
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Financial Leadership Council
Two thirds of the institutions we work with have formal clinical documentation improvement programs, defined by a dedicated staff that reviews patient charts for accuracy and completion while the patient is still in the hospital. Although there is a wide range of performance levels, the strongest programs focus their efforts on the areas with the greatest opportunity for improvement.
The Complication and Comorbidity Coding Analyzer has already surfaced hundreds of thousands of dollars of documentation opportunity for Medicare alone, while the opportunity for other providers that pay with DRGs is even more significant.
