DRG Documentation Deck

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Qty	Edition & Format	Availability	Price
	2012 Fast Finder Item #: 6083 ISBN #: 9781601515490	IN STOCK	$49.95

Features and benefits

• Quickly reference documentation requirements for 50 key medical conditions that have the greatest impact on hospital reimbursement. Organized and color-coded by body system, these pocket-sized reminders help physicians and coders understand documentation requirements.
• Optimize DRG assignment. Understand documentation requirements to move non-specific diagnosis codes to more specific related diagnosis codes that are designated as CCs or MCCs.
• Learn where to look. Suggests where to look in key source documents for clinical evidence supporting MCC (major complications and comorbidities) and CC (complications and comorbidities).
• Understand clinical indicators. Know the clinical events and circumstances that confirm higher patient severity that translates to CC and MCC conditions.
• Know typical treatments. Each card identifies the typical treatments, noting the most common modalities, and also describes the care options found in more severe cases.
• MS-DRG basics. Introductory cards describe grouper logic and provide definitions for key terms.
• General documentation tips. Learn how to "rule out" diagnoses, use of symbols and abbreviations, documenting findings from lab and radiology tests, etc.
• List of most commonly missed CC/MCC conditions.
• Documentation examples. Learn from examples of non-specific documentation such as CHF and related specific documentation such as acute or chronic diastolic CHF.