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Physician Queries Handbook: Guide to Compliant and Effective Communication
The key to getting the medical record clarified and the information required to code properly is learning how to draft an effective, non-leading query to the physician. Medical coding books Physician Queries Handbook for free download collection in PDF, EPUB formats. The Physician Queries Handbook is the authoritative source for defining policies, procedures, and best practices for physician queries. Coauthored by a physician, and CDI professionals with nursing, coding, and HIM backgrounds, the Physician Queries Handbook provides practical, tips and best practices for querying physicians on a concurrent or retrospective basis. It also presents strategies on how to develop a query policy and procedure that takes into account the many different facility-specific topics that directors and managers must understand. Turn words into actions Although Coding Clinic, AHIMA, and the ICD-9-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provide guidance related to query policies and procedures, there are still a lot of gray areas for which hospitals must account, such as:
• Who should leave queries?
• What is a leading query?
• How long should staff expect to wait for a query response?
• How should hospitals deal with reluctant physicians? Take a look at the topics covered in the Physician Queries Handbook: Regulatory impact on physician queries
• ICD-9-CM, Coding Clinic, MSDRGs, AHIMA, CMS, and OIG clarifications CDI program basics and the query process
• Enlisting internal facility support
• Developing query roles
• Defining CDI program organizational structure Query process infrastructure
• Prospective, concurrent, and retrospective queries How to construct physician queries
• Query format
• Verbal vs. Ebooks download Physician Queries Handbook pdf on amazon.written queries
• Leading queries
• Query timeframe
• Best practices Performance monitoring
• Coder/CDI productivity and quality
• Program effectiveness Physician techniques
• Interviewing physicians
• Common scenarios
• Building relationships
• Disruptive physicians
• Joint Commission rules
• Medical staff procedures Appendix
• ACDIS physician query benchmarking survey
• AHIMA physician query practice brief
• ICD-9-CM query rules
• Coding Clinic references
• Sample query forms Physician Queries Handbook free download available via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, and hotfile.
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