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Physician Advisor’s Corner: Six tips for doctors to become super documenters

by Sam Antonios, MD, FACP

Good documentation captures a patient’s accurate morbidity and severity of illness. It affects the quality  measures that comprise physician profiles. Finally, good documentation affects financial reimbursement.
This is even truer when it comes to ICD-10-CM/PCS. So what are the top tips to becoming a great  documenter? Following are a few of my thoughts; feel free to share them with your docs.

 

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