Associate Editorial Director's Note: Documentation through the denials looking glass

by Melissa Varnavas

Documentation improvement efforts related to denials management and audit prevention feel a lot like a trip through Alice’s looking glass, too. The list of auditing agencies alone can make CDI specialists feel like they’ve fallen into an alternative universe: MACs, MICs, FIs, RACs—not to mention denials from private payers. But climb through the mirror we must.