Mel Tully, Vice President of Clinical Services and Education, Nuance Communications: Look for low hanging fruit opportunities for Medicare not to pay you and where gaps between documentation and charge capture abound. A successful CDI program will show you where most hospitals fail to capture the accurate severity of illness of patients and what your teams are doing that make it easy for revenue to be lost or to be recovered.
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