Put the focus on clinical documentation
Strategies for Health Care Compliance, January 1, 2012
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Compliance officers should take an active role in overseeing CDI efforts to ensure records are reviewed for clinical validation of medical conditions and that CDI specialists do not just review records with the goal of improved reimbursement, says
Fran Jurcak, RN, MSN, CCDS, a director with Huron Healthcare, a division of Huron Consulting in Chicago.
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