Working with Physicians to Improve Documentation
Getting high-quality documentation requires understanding physicians’ priorities, their thinking styles, and the time pressures they work under. Demonstrating how documentation can improve patient care is key to motivating physicians.
Coding for Conscious Sedation
How has coding for moderate sedation and conscious sedation changed?
Cultivating Homegrown Inpatient Auditors
Building a team of internal inpatient auditors empowers revenue cycle leaders to proactively validate coding, determine regulatory compliance, and analyze clinical documentation. The best place to find qualified auditors is to train your own coders for the job.
The Dangers of “Downcoding” in Emergency Medicine
Kenneth J. Heinrich discusses how “routine emergencies” can result in lost revenue due to incomplete documentation.
Raising Red Flags for Coder Quality in ICD-10
By analyzing coder performance data, organizations pinpoint revenue vulnerabilities and mitigate reimbursement risk.
Ask the Experts: ICD-10 Transition
Now that the ICD-10 conversion deadline has passed, what are the top issues that providers are seeing?
HFMA Executive Survey: Revenue Cycle ICD-10 Readiness Survey
As hospitals and health systems address additional time for the ICD-10 transition, it will be key to recognize where efforts stand compared with others in such key areas as documentation training, coding support, contract analysis, and contingency planning. With this in mind, HFMA researchers, with sponsorship from 3M HIS, surveyed executive and revenue cycle leaders about current efforts and top challenges they are likely to face moving forward.
HFMA Executive Survey: Clinical Documentation Meets Financial Performance
In this survey of hospital CFOs and other senior-level executives, HFMA researchers share industry views on areas of CDI priority, opportunity, common barriers, and use of outsourcing to support more accurate and complete documentation and charge capture.
Catholic Health East’s ICD-10 Workflow Analysis Survey
Hospital leaders can adapt this ICD-10 transition survey to identify potential migration pitfalls in outpatient departments.
Ask the Expert: Real-Time Coding Scrubber
This Revenue Cycle Forum Ask the Expert question asks if there is a real-time coding scrubber option out there.