tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 29

COMPLIANCE: Treat Self-Audits as Learning Opportunities -- Not Punishments

Presentation is everything when talking to staffers. How many ticking time bombs are waiting in your medical records? If you don't audit your charts regularly, you'll never know. But even the most thorough set of audits could come to nothing if your staffers believe they'll lose their jobs if you uncover a problem in an audit. Reality: "Internal audits (or those conducted by the practice using an outside resource) are the main thing that will protect providers," says Stephanie Fiedler, CPC, ACS-EM with Loeb & Troper, LLP, in New York City. "Auditing is a method of determining which...

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