Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
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Try This Coding Worksheet to Streamline Communication
Published on Fri Feb 10, 2012
Tool helps you get all the information you need for accurate code assignment. Setting a standard for communication between the field clinician doing an assessment and the coder assigning ICD-9 codes can improve accuracy as well as reimbursement. Try using a coding worksheet like this one from
Whether you share this information via a paper form or an electronic file, it gives coders what they need to know to code most accurately.
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