The overall goal of revenue integrity is to ensure compliant documentation as it relates to charging practices across the healthcare industry. The roles within revenue integrity departments range from employing staff within charge description master (CDM) maintenance to expanding staff within charge capture. This includes staff within clinical departments responsible for adequate charge reconciliation, charge entry, and denials management and remediation staff, such as Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and coding and billing departments.
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