Clinical Documentation Excellence Program: Tackling ICD-10 Challenges

Published: Tue, 06/16/15

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In October 2013, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) launched its clinical go-live of ICD-10 with a focus on data-driven priority setting and physician engagement. An external audit of diagnosis codes found that documentation yielded unspecified diagnosis codes 4% more often than the national benchmark of 18% and predicted a 1% increase for unspecified codes in ICD-10. This posed a risk....

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