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Can You Idenitfy 7 Qualities of Good Documentation? Find Out.

Published on Mon Jan 27, 2014

Expect denials when documentation doesn’t support your code selection. You may be able to choose diagnosis codes with the precision of a sharpshooter, but if the clinical record doesn’t support the codes you report, you run the risk of down coding, focused medical review, and even fraud investigations. The documentation on which you base your coding is about to get [...]
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