Hospitals and health systems are continuously looking to reduce claim denials, as well as the costs associated with them.
Glenn Krauss, director of enterprise solutions at health IT company ZirMed: By promoting and affecting positive change in overall physician documentation patterns as part of a clinical documentation improvement program — especially helping physicians recognize and understand the medical record serves as a communication tool for all healthcare stakeholders (including the patient and payer) — healthcare organizations can prevent denials and also reduce the time and effort required to rework recoverable denials.
To learn more about how to reduce claim denials, access this story from Becker's Hospital Review.
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