HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2016 Issue 41 (November)

Putting the specific into unspecified

November 1st, 2016

Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, writes about how using unspecified diagnoses in the inpatient world results in deflated quality metrics. Remer helps clinical documentation specialists remedy the situation and gives advices on how to aid providers in documenting to the level of specificity that is now needed.

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