tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 11
CDI 101: Answered: All Your Burning Questions about Physician Queries
Remember: Query forms should never indicate any financial impact. Physician queries, and the answers to them, are a crucial part of any clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program. But writing queries and analyzing query data as you grow your outpatient facility's CDI program requires smarts and skills. In a class she taught at the American Academy of Professional Coders Regional Conference in Salt Lake City, Leonta Williams, RHIT, CPCO, CPC, CEMC, CHONC, CCS, CCDS, schooled attendees on the art and science of writing outpatient queries. There are clear guidelines for writing inpatient queries, and inpatient coders often have four or...
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