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March 1, 2024Future Healthcare JournalOpen Access

Targeted education for clinicians and clinical coding staff improves the accuracy of clinical coding: A quality improvement project

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SRShiva T. RadhakrishnanRPRobert M. PerrySMSurabhi Misra

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Overview

Quality improvement project demonstrates improved clinical coding accuracy following targeted staff education, indicating reduced hospital billing discrepancies.

Key Points

  • Targeted educational sessions for staff substantially improved the accuracy of inpatient clinical coding and reduced diagnostic revisions.
  • Healthcare Resource Group code adjustments dropped from 58.5% across 94 cases down to 20.5% across 73 cases after training (p<0.0001).
  • Highlights the value of joint educational training for medical teams to optimize healthcare resource group allocation and record keeping.

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Radhakrishnan et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e7671fb6db6435876dc1c8https://doi.org/10.7861/fhj.2023-0021
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