Set the bar with outpatient coding productivity standards
APCs Weekly Monitor, July 3, 2009
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Establishing coding productivity standards is a necessary and challenging part of managing an efficient HIM department. Without standards, coders don’t know what directors and managers expect of them, and they don’t have a productivity goal to which they can aspire.
Seventy-three percent of the 215 respondents who participated in HCPro’s April coding productivity survey said they have established a general coding productivity standard.
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