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Build a Culture Optimal for All

How to manage organizational retention in healthcare. No one who administers a healthcare organization needs to be told how crucial recruitment and retention of the best revenue integrity professionals are to good business. Every organization wants excellent talent, and the cost of staff turnover is prohibitive; a 2018 Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) study showed […]

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New Sentinel Event Alert focuses on leadership’s role in culture of safety

The Joint Commission in March unveiled Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) 57, which stresses the role of leadership in developing and sustaining a culture of safety. It goes on to claim that leadership’s failure in this regard contributes to several adverse events, including wrong site surgery and treatment delays. It’s impossible to completely eliminate human and mechanical error completely, the accreditor writes. But leaders can take a role in mitigating and catching these mistakes before they hurt someone.

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Covered diagnosis for aerobic bacterial culture

Quest is telling us that Humana is denying an aerobic bacterial culture for diagnosis L.089 (skin infection NOS). Is there a better code to use? The patient is complaining of erythema at the site of a surgical wound – should we use erythema, or surgical wound complication, or ???

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Create a Culture of Change in Your Practice

The alternative is long-term financial loss and patient dissatisfaction. Change is hard, but failing to change imposes a high cost. It costs more to stay broken than to make changes you need. This article teaches you a three-step approach to make difficult but necessary changes in your healthcare practice or facility. Change Is Necessary for […]
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Urine culture denials

Our facility’s lab dept has a protocol when a UA comes back abnormal a culture is automatically done. However since the coder does not code from lab results but the order itself the dx will pass for the UA but not the urine culture. We are considering a policy/protocol where the physician lab director has a standing order for urine cultures with an abnormal findings dx code. Any input from other coders or facilities regarding how to go about this or examples from other facilities would be so appreciated. Thanks for any and all help!

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