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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, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, co-authored a paper — published in the June 2018 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (JAHIMA) — that explored the…
Read MoreUASI in JAHIMA: “Improving Specificity in ICD-10 Diagnosis Coding”
Unspecified diagnosis coding continues to be a problem in the US healthcare industry. For many organizations, overuse of nonspecific diagnosis codes has resulted in reimbursement delays and, in some cases, preventable claim denials.
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