Streamlining processes and catching calculation, documentation and filing problems now can help you considerably at year-end and tax time next year.
According to McKenzie and colleagues [ 25] it is essential that clinicians and coders alike be aware of the documentation and coding problems related to the capture of cause-injury data.
The next group of development and documentation problems [13, 14] focus on Alexander's use of the term 'empirical' (and the evidence supporting his patterns) and has antecedents in his ontological [3] and epistemological positions [4].
The federal government has suspended payments on an $80 million contract to an Alabama company that built base camps for emergency workers responding to Hurricane Katrina after auditors reported finding billing and documentation problems, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday.
9 We found that the most important factors leading to the inability to identify these cases as high-risk were normal laboratory data and documentation problems in the BMP. 9 Therefore, requiring EPs to complete more detailed patient history, physical examinations and laboratory findings as a basic requirement is likely to help prevent adverse events.
However, despite these identified ambiguities and problems of documentation in the literature, methods of handling complex chart data are quite inconsistent across the studies and reported only sporadically.
The interview schedules were based on a standardised work systems framework drawn from process engineering [ 24] and comprised six main themes: process understanding, work system understanding, communication, documentation, problems and suggestions for improvements and quality of care received (patient's only).
PAR entails the documentation of problems, achievements and the state of the art, the formulation of an analysis and action model including the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions, 47 49 and the stakeholders' active participation throughout all research phases.
The acting comptroller of the currency, John Walsh, testified last week that while there were widespread problems with documentation and oversight of law firms and other crucial links in the foreclosure chain, only a "small number of foreclosure sales should not have proceeded".
The quality system regulation also requires establishment of documentation and records for investigating quality problems and patient injuries of the medical devices concerned.
