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What happened to storytelling? Improving documentation practices for proper code translation
Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS, discusses how without some form of a narrative in documentation, hospital coders cannot sequence individual diagnoses. If there is no story provided, records can be rife with opportunity for a recovery auditor or payer to construct an alternative version of what happened during hospital visits, resulting in denials.
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