Documentation:
Don't Let Poor Paperwork Come In the Way of Deserved Payouts
Published on Wed Jul 23, 2014
Get ready for even more specificity in ICD-10 next year. 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 [...]