CMW Tip of the Week: Free physician advisor tools
Case Management Weekly, May 27, 2009
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Take advantage of two free tools—courtesy of the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS)—to help you ensure that your physician advisors are at the top of their game.
Click here to download a sample physician advisor job description.
Click here to download a sample physician advisor documentation review program.
For further training on the roles and responsibilities of physician advisors, consider purchasing a recording of the audio conference “Clinical Documentation Improvement for Physician Advisors,” sponsored by the ACDIS. The audio conference, recorded on April 14, explains how physician advisors can help you significantly improve initial documentation and physician response rates to queries; however the position must be structured correctly in order for it to work well. For more information about this audio conference, visit HCMarketplace.
Do you have a tip or tool you’d like to share, or perhaps a question for our experts? Contact editor Julie McGinley at jmcginley@hcpro.com. Your tip or question might be appear in the next issue of Case Management Weekly.
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