Hello, I have an issue in where Leadership advises coders to look into other charts for documentation and I disagree. For example, a HAR (hospital account record) is created to carve out a service (ambulatory surgery, dos 11/16/22) from an inpatient stay HAR (LOS 11/15-17/22). Each has their own har # but there are no documents in the HAR carve out account, the documents are in the inpatient account. Our supervisor advises the coder to look at the inpatient account for the Op report and assign the cpt to the carve out acct. and refuses to request the op be scanned to Carve out acct., "it's ok, that's the way we do it". From a compliance standpoint I advise the coders to request that the op be scanned into the correct acct. for so many reasons. 1. Each HAR has to stand on it's own (that's the purpose of a HAR). 2. If there's a request for records there will be none in the carve out acct. to support the cpt. 3. Even a piece of paper scanned into the chart with a link "ref. inpt. har # 123 for op report" could suffice. Please let me know if any clarification is needed. If anyone would weigh in on this with opinions or guidelines, I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much.