Tip: Elevate coders' role in concurrent reviews
APCs Insider, April 17, 2009
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Everyone knows that an immense amount of teamwork is necessary for a CDI program to truly be successful. Physicians and facility administration need to be supportive, of course, but the primary CDI stakeholders-i.e., nurses, CDI specialists, and coders-need to work together.
Many CDI programs use nurses as their primary concurrent reviewers, the argument being that nurses speak "clinical-ese," i.e., the physician language. However, without the specific knowledge of coding guidelines, such clinical knowledge may muddy the already murky waters of documentation.
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