The U.S. healthcare system is and will continue to be dependent on clinical codes and is thus equally dependent on accurate and complete clinical documentation.
Medical Records Briefing (MRB) recently asked HIM, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), and coding professionals about their ICD-10 implementation efforts for our first quarterly benchmarking survey of the year.
The number of patients using Medicare Advantage (MA) is rapidly growing, making Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) an increasingly important concept for revenue cycle staff to understand in order to guarantee reimbursement.
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