Credentialing physicians is seen as essential to ensure proper billing and reimbursement. As a healthcare provider or practice, you must ensure that your physicians are
Diagnosis without supporting the judgment of the physician’s documentation is the phenomenon of nakedness. A recent Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists/American Health Information Management
A physician laments that physicians were not invited to participate in the AHIMA/ACDIS CDI Practice Brief. For steadfast readers of ICD10monitor and attentive listeners to
Gaining an understanding of why it’s important to familiarize yourself with the clinical revenue cycle is vital in healthcare. Clinical revenue cycle: what is it?
The process involves a multi-step review. Physicians take the Hippocratic Oath in medical school to “do no harm.” Despite their best intentions, however, many physicians sometimes
AHIMA released its CDI Practice Brief Monday. At Yom Kippur services, I found myself thinking about the question Dr. Ronald Hirsch posed to me the
These foundational elements are essential to assure that there is a better way to improve CDI. Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) programs continue to evolve over
Most rural hospitals do not have physician advisors but clearly need them. Last week RACmonitor published an article written by John K. Hall, MD, JD, MBA,
KPIs are metrics to monitor or measure that things are working properly, and a dashboard is a summary of those KPIs. Over the past two
Do the silos in your healthcare organization need to be broken down? One of my observations almost on a daily basis is that there are
A freshly minted physician advisor shares thoughts on the engagement process. Working in the clinical revenue cycle arena has taught me a lot about engaging
Facing the issue of admitting privileges. Recently I became the physician advisor for a critical access hospital, Cameron Memorial Community Memorial Hospital in Angola, Ind.
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