Determining a facility’s coding guidelines is the top priority for every coding professional who begins working at a new organization. While most facilities have specific coding guidelines, they’re usually undocumented.…
Category: Revenue Cycle
Artificial Intelligence is Ready to Transform Financial Operations. Are You?
There’s nothing artificial about artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on healthcare. It’s driving improvements across the clinical care continuum. Now AI is poised to tackle the revenue cycle and charge capture…
IPPS Final Rule Changes for Fiscal Year 2020
The Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 for acute care hospital discharges became effective on October 1, 2019. The final rule was displayed in…
Auditing CDI: Pros, Cons, and Everything in Between
Beginning an auditing program for a clinical documentation integrity (CDI) team may seem daunting. Without an instruction manual to use as a guide, the process itself is the basis for…