Tip: Analyzing Samples
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, October 16, 2007
To get the most out of your audit results, segregate and analyze your data. Segregate the results to learn whether most errors are due to coders or physicians. If you don't know, you could waste time educating coders while 90% of errors are due to poor physician documentation. Segregating results also allows you to work with individual coders or physicians on problem areas.
Your audit isn't very valuable if you don't share the results with all impacted departments. To do so, tailor these results to each. For example, make sure your executive summary looks at the big picture and the basic issues. Include the coding change rate, number of patient discharges, and your sample selection. Your coding staff, however, need a more detailed report. There may be other departments with which you want to share results, but that will depend on your organization.
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