Ten Tips for Writing Effective Appeal Letters
1. Review every denial to determine the validity of an appeal. If the denial is valid, do not appeal. However, appeal every case where there… Read More »Ten Tips for Writing Effective Appeal Letters
AHIMA
UASI Experts to Present “Key Steps to Successfully Implement Outpatient CDI in Physician Practice” at AHIMA 2018
HIM directors, coding managers and healthcare leaders consistently tell us that accurate hierarchical condition category (HCC) capture, coding error prevention and compliance planning remain top-of-mind.… Read More »UASI Experts to Present “Key Steps to Successfully Implement Outpatient CDI in Physician Practice” at AHIMA 2018
UASI Experts to Present “Creating and Retaining the Best CDI Team” at AHIMA 2018
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) — particularly in outpatient settings — continues to be a top priority for US healthcare organizations as they prepare for their… Read More »UASI Experts to Present “Creating and Retaining the Best CDI Team” at AHIMA 2018
UASI Experts to Present “Compliance Risks Associated with DRG Mismatches” at AHIMA 2018
The American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) 2018 gathering is coming soon and among the hot topics to be discussed this year are diagnostic related… Read More »UASI Experts to Present “Compliance Risks Associated with DRG Mismatches” at AHIMA 2018
UASI at AHIMA 2018: Our Experts to Present CDI, DRG Mismatches and Team-Building
The coding and HIM event of the year is here again. AHIMA 2018 is scheduled for September 22-26 in Miami, with a broad agenda covering… Read More »UASI at AHIMA 2018: Our Experts to Present CDI, DRG Mismatches and Team-Building
UASI in JAHIMA: “Documentation and Coding Practices for Risk Adjustment and Hierarchical Condition Categories”
UASI’s health information management (HIM) experts continue to set the pace in this fast-evolving field. Our vice president of HIM consulting services, Mary Stanfill, MBI,… Read More »UASI in JAHIMA: “Documentation and Coding Practices for Risk Adjustment and Hierarchical Condition Categories”
UASI in JAHIMA: “Bridging the Gap Between Coding Guidelines and Sepsis Clinical Criteria”
In the January 2018 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (JAHIMA), UASI corporate trainer Natalie Satori, MEd, RHIA, published an article that seeks to clear up some of the confusion surrounding clinical criteria, as they pertain to coding guidelines and clinical validation specifically for sepsis.