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The physician advisor: An invaluable resource
If your facility does not have a physician advisor, my recommendation is to get one. The physician advisor at our facility is great. Dr. Jim Chambers is very knowledgeable, not only in the field of cardiology, but he is quite knowledgeable in the area of coding. Dr. Chambers has spend countless hours educating and assisting our hospital billing department in establishing correct billing codes.
Documentation is key in obtaining the appropriate billing code. Physicians work hard taking great care of their patients, but what they lack is being able to document everything they have done for the patient and the outcomes. Outcomes are essential in the world of coding. For example, when a patient comes in with an abnormal prealbumin level, the physician treats this, but yet sometimes only documents that the patient has malnutrition. In this case, the hospital is reimbursed at the lowest level for malnutrition.
The stages of malnutrition are based on the prealbumin level, so the physician needs to document what level of malnutrition the patient is experiencing as there is dollar difference in the different levels of malnutrition. Our physician advisor has been working with our physicians to correct this. [more]
