Diagnosis Pitfalls to Look for When Seeking to Avoid Denials

A recent study from the healthcare solutions company Premier indicated that $19.7 billion is what hospitals and health systems are spending annually on handling and appealing denials. Yes, that is…

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AHIMA Fuels Clinical Documentation Improvement with New Toolkits

Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps healthcare organizations capture meaningful data for improved quality reporting and clinician productivity. In an effort to ensure that the entire patient record is documented properly,…

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90% Report Clinical Documentation Improvement Boosted Revenue

Most hospitals gained at least $1.5 million in healthcare revenue after clinical documentation improvement implementation, a Black Book survey found. Nearly 90 percent of hospitals with 150 or more beds…

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Coding Vendor Gives ICD-10 Tips

It is only two years until the compliance date for the ICD-10 code sets and yet not enough hospitals have yet begun readiness assessments and impact analyses, said Jim Jacobs,…

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