Atlanta-based Jvion—a healthcare technology company providing solutions to reduce clinical and financial waste—recently released their latest whitepaper “Measure Twice, Cut Once: 5 Biggest Lessons in ICD-10 Documentation Success.” The white paper was developed to serve as a roadmap for providers who face the daunting challenge of updating documentation practices as part of the transition to ICD-10 (PR Web, 12/30/13).
Unfortunately, many providers are not able to capitalize on this opportunity because of resource, time and budgetary constraints. To address these gaps and the pitfalls inherent to the ICD-10 transition, Jvion proposes a documentation approach based on the adage “measure twice, cut once.”
The five steps outlined below in the white paper provides a clear and data driven understanding of ICD-10 documentation risks and opportunities that enables the best spend of dollars and time.
1. Look to the past to understand the future
2. Get down into the detail
Drill deeper than a DRG-level analysis by examining each encounter to achieve the most detailed understanding of documentation gaps and opportunities.
3. Prioritize by risk
4. Fix what you can today
Analytics done in ICD-9 can lead to insights that help the future state of healthcare providers resulting in improvements in documentation and coding.
5. ICD-10 documentation isn’t a one and done activity
Documentation improvement is a journey and there will always be opportunities to improve upon what is done today.
To download a copy of the whitepaper “Measure Twice, Cut Once: 5 Biggest Lessons in ICD-10 Documentation Success,” please visit http://www.jvion.com/downloadconfirmation.aspx?fname=pdf/Documentation_Measure%20Twice_Final.pdf
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