Transcription of Pneumonia Coding - HCPro
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A supplement to Opus Communications publicationsPneumoniaCodingPneumoniaCodi ngPneumonia coding2 Table of contentsCoding Pneumonia what coders must know ..3 Gloryanne Bryant, RHIT, CCS, discusses why Pneumonia Coding is still a risk area, determining specificity, how to query the physician, and query form ..5NJ hospital self-discloses Pneumonia Coding errors ..6 Hackensack University Medical Center recently settled with the government due to Pneumonia upcoding. Here s what the hospital has done to make sure it stays in look at the government s upcoding project ..7 Hackensack University Medical Center isn t the only facility to settle with the government in 2002. Let these other hospitals serve as a overpayments: Be the first to tell the government ..8 Making Coding errors is not the problem, it s how you respond to will happen with ICD-10? ..19 Benchmarking your Pneumonia caseload ..10 Benchmarking should be an important part of your compliance efforts.
Pneumonia coding 3 by Gloryanne Bryant, RHIT, CCS Have you noticed we are still seeing settlement agree-ments associated with diagnosis-related group (DRG)
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