tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 8

AUDITS: Look For Time Bombs In Your Medical Records

8 tips to improving your chart audit successYou could be throwing money away if you're not auditing your charts regularly."Chart audits are a good way to pick up things that aren't billed, and then things that are billed but aren't documented," notes Maxine Lewis, a consultant with Medical Coding Reimbursement Management in Cincinnati. You may actually rescue some money with audits--and you may avoid compliance nightmares.She and other experts offer the following tips to help you audit your patients' charts: 1) Base your audits on the HHS Office of Inspector General's guidance on compliance programs. The...

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