Tag: Coding Denials

Coding Denials

Coding Denials: Back to Basics

Coding must be supported by documentation, but also by the Official Coding Guidelines. While preparing for a clinical validation presentation on acute kidney injury denials, I took inventory of the most common denials and recoveries obtained by payers. It came as no surprise that sepsis, severe malnutrition, and encephalopathy were at the top of the […]
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