Audit injections and infusions to ensure correct coding
Briefings on APCs, April 1, 2010
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“If there is one area that I really encourage you to spend a lot of your auditing and monitoring time on, it is in drug administration,” Rinkle says. Drug administration includes several significant concepts, and all of those concepts drive back to documentation for medical necessity and time, she says.
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