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7 statistics on medical coder salary, growth potential

By Laura Dyrda for Becker’s ASC Review Professional coders are more likely to see compensation increases when they achieve higher credentials, and the percent increase in year-over-year compensation is higher for the most-credentialed individuals, according to the AAPC 2016 Salary Survey. The survey was completed by 9.2 percent of AAPC membership, and 2.2 percent hold…

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Chart Conundrums: Desperately Seeking Clinical Validation

By Angie Dibble, RHIT for For The Record Sepsis, encephalopathy, malnutrition, and acute renal failure are examples of diagnoses that often prove vexing for coders and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists. What if the sepsis diagnosis is based on “technically meets sepsis criteria” because a patient with a urinary tract infection has an elevated white blood…

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How to Improve Clinical Documentation

As health systems work to get the most from their physicians’ EHR charting, experts say it’s important to focus on the right metrics while working toward greater buy-in from doctors. By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News Hospitals and health systems trying to survive and thrive under value-based reimbursement realize that optimal clinical documentation is…

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Sticky Query Situations

By Selena Chavis for For the Record Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) processes have made significant inroads in recent years. Now a mainstream strategy within any forward-looking hospital, CDI teams are critical players in the greater quality management picture as it relates to successfully positioning for value-based care. Not all CDI workflows and processes are created…

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Discussing Second Level Reviews in CDI

Article by Marina Kravtsova. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on Sep 29, 2017 and is republished here with permission. Over the past nine months, the clinical documentation improvement (CDI) team that I represent has been recruited to perform so-called second level reviews. All cases presented to the CDI team for second level review thus…

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Bridging the Gap between HIM Coding and CDI Professionals

Article by Steven Robinson, MS, PA, RN, CDIP. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on April 26, 2017 and is republished here with permission. Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. —Mattie Stepanek Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professionals have a worthy task to help identify…

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Has CAC Lived Up to Its Promise? Providers, Vendors Weigh In

Article by Lisa A. Eramo, MA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June 1, 2017 and is republished here with permission. In the months leading up to the ICD-10 go-live, many hospitals implemented computer-assisted coding (CAC) in the hopes that it would offset anticipated productivity losses and boost coding accuracy. Now…

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Dolbey to Offer Physician Query Mobile App for CAC and CDI with Artifact Health

Dolbey’s award winning Computer-Assisted Coding application and new Clinical Documentation Improvement offering will now include the power and convenience of mobile physician queries and enhanced query management and reporting through Artifact Health. Dolbey’s Fusion CAC™ is deployed in the medical coding process.  Fusion CAC evaluates the patient chart documentation to suggest diagnostic and procedure codes…

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3rd Biggest Killer in US Is Medical Error – Johns Hopkins Study

By Staff for RT Research has discovered that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. With more than 250,000 deaths of this kind annually, researchers from Johns Hopkins University urge addressing systemic problems with the US system. There have been other estimates, including one by the Centers for Disease Control…

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