Seven simple steps to effectively staff your coding department
Medical Records Briefing, April 1, 2009
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1. Determine how many records your staff can code per day or week. This may be difficult for the novice director who isn’t as familiar with the facility’s typical workload or patient volume. However, the total number of inpatient discharges is usually an easy number to obtain from the inpatient census.
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