HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2021 Issue 5 (February)

Addressing health disparities through ICD-10-CM reporting for social determinants of health

February 2nd, 2021

Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS, writes that ensuring the social determinants of health are appropriately documented within the medical record allows CDI and coding teams to capture the hard data needed to demonstrate the interactions among race, gender, ethnicity, and other key socioeconomic indicators with healthcare costs, utilization, and outcomes.

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