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Readmission rates: Using documentation and ICD-10-CM/PCS to perfect measures

James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, reviews readmission rates and writes that if physicians learn the foundations of readmission measurement and implement some basic principles and workflows for reporting clinically accurate ICD-10-CM/PCS coding, hospitals can succeed with readmission measures.

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