Concurrent Coding Documentation Management
(C.C.D.M) and coding initiative
If you desire these outcomes:
■ Optimize revenue per case
■ Manage clinical resource utilization
■ Improve comparative database performance
■ Avoid re-bills
■ Reduce A/R
■ Increase coding accuracy
■ Manage LOS and cost per case to targets
■ Anticipate clinical resource utilization on a case by case basis
■ Create “coding compliance confidence”
■ Medical Staff engagement in clinical data integrity
Solutions and Action Strategies
A real-time, point of service, coding and data management process that:
■ Assists the medical staff to reflect the complexity of the patient’s clinical condition in progress notes and summary reports
■ Improves the integrity of coded data
■ Provides information and indices to facilitate appropriate utilization of clinical resources
To accomplish these goals and objectives:
■ Create partnerships between nursing clinicians and HIM professionals at the unit level
■ Identify the principle diagnosis and anticipated LOS on a real-time basis
■ Provide documentation education to physicians during the patient's episode of care
■ Avoid retrospective physician coding queries
■ Transfer the coded account to billing on the day of discharge
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