The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospitals to report on various quality measures, many of which are tied to the specific diagnosis codes that clinical documentation integrity (CDI), audit and coding teams are responsible for identifying. Accurate diagnosis code sequencing is key to improving hospital ratings and rankings by industry groups like U.S. News & World Report, Leapfrog Group and Vizient.
Using the 3M advanced code sequencing technology in conjunction with your CDI program is essential to ensuring not only accurate reimbursement, but also surfacing the true complexity of your patient population.
How can health care organizations ensure CDI, coding and audit teams work more efficiently together to capture the patient story, while minimizing the impact and time on thinly staffed teams?
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