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Risk Adjustment:

Understand How Risk Can Inform Visit Complexity

Published on Tue Dec 14, 2021

There’s more to risk adjustment beyond reimbursement, experts say. If you want to improve your otolaryngology practice’s reimbursement, risk adjustment and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) are two initiatives that may be able to help you. During the risk adjustment process, payers predict healthcare costs based on the health status of a person. When your providers see patients with high risk [...]
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