“Engaging digitally with our patients for patient intake has allowed us to offer contactless registration to our patients, which is safer for the patient and our colleagues,” Plank said. “It allows them to v
If a claim scrubber finds a mistake, they’ll flag it so a medical coder or biller can fix it. You also may have heard the term “charge scrubber.” A charge scrubber is similar to a claim scrubber, but there’s a difference: Whereas a claim scrubber audits medical billing reports ...
More specifically, an expert clinical coder is expected to decipher a large number of documents about a patient’s episode of care, and to select the most accurate codes from a large classification system (or an ontology), according to the contexts in the various documents and the regularly ...
[This was] useful [because it] imparted a few key points to remember, and gave a useful clinical tool to use [in either the inpatient or outpatient] setting." "[My most valuable learning experience was in] morning report – it focused on [the case of a patient] that I had taken ...
— Jane Hulting, RHIA, CCS, is the senior director of education quality assurance for nThrive. She has more than 30 years of health care experience as a manager, consultant, coder, and auditor. She has acted as liaison and educator within clinical documentation improvement and collaborated with...
This category is broken down into six sections and they are: Evaluation and Management (99201-99499) – which includes hospital observation services, office and other outpatient services, consultations, hospital inpatient services, emergency department, critical care services, nursing facility services, ...
[This was] useful [because it] imparted a few key points to remember, and gave a useful clinical tool to use [in either the inpatient or outpatient] setting." "[My most valuable learning experience was in] morning report – it focused on [the case of a patient] that I had taken ...