HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2018 Issue 18 (May)

Managing severity and risk adjustment challenges in ICD-10-CM/PCS

May 1st, 2018

James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, writes that the various approaches hospital systems use to optimize their DRG-based case-mix index or HCC-based risk adjustment factor scores will likely conflict with how an accountability agent will see those measurements.

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