PPV: Hospitals experience POA snags due to systems problems, insufficient documentation
HIM Connection, February 12, 2008
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Although present-on-admission (POA) indicator assignment is going smoothly for most hospitals, several problems have hindered facilities' overall success.
"There are some challenges and struggles along the way," says June Bronnert, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, manager of professional practice resources at the American Health Information Management Association in Chicago. "The biggest challenge revolves around physician documentation. I've also heard about some systems issues."
Many echo Bronnert's sentiments and agree that some hospital systems simply weren't ready for the POA indicator.
Editor's note: To read more about the challenges of POA reporting, visit http://www.hcpro.com/content/204788.cfm. You can purchase a copy of this article for $10. Subscribers to Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies have access to the article in the February 2008 issue.
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