Here is a recent ICD-10 Summit Wrap up video interview with Mary Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, vice president of HIM consulting services at UASI talks about coding documentation gaps and the best ways to fill them in converting to ICD-10. Stanfill provides the following tips on addressing coding documentation gaps:
- Identifying high risk areas suchas surgical procedures for amputations must be coded as mid, high, or low in order code the case
- Improve physician/clinician documentation and not an increase in coder queries
- Structured documentation opportunities
- Education & Awareness
