How Can a Chart Review Benefit Your Practice?
Reimbursement for Services Rendered Sounds Easy, Doesn’t It?
Chart reviews are a necessity to assuring that your practice is compliant and maximizing revenue for the services rendered.
Overview
Our Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA®) healthcare consulting team is extensively trained, HIPAA compliant, and committed to accuracy and excellence. Our comprehensive chart review will improve the quality of your clinical documentation in electronic medical records, which will lead to accurate claims, ensuring you receive the reimbursement you deserve. We recommend performing regular chart review to establish compliance with regulatory guidelines and ensure you are managing an efficient and clean operation.
THE EDAFIO CHART REVIEW PROCESS
WHY SHOULD WE DO THIS?
- Help identify lost revenue.
- Identify the cloning of notes and code overuse.
- Determine if documentation supports the service that was billed
- Identify areas of opportunity for improvement and training within the organization.
- Identify any outliers before large payers find them and request an internal audit to challenge inappropriate coding.
- Help protect organizations against unintentional fraudulent claims and billing activity.
- Failure to validate your provider’s coding & documentation puts your organization at risk
Common Findings During a Chart Review Include:
Cloning of notes
Upcoding or downcoding
Incorrect use of modifiers
Missed revenue opportunities
Over reporting of specific E/M codes
Overdocumentation due to improper use of EMR templates
Documentation that does not support the patient’s chief complaint
Reporting of E/M codes that equal up to more time than the provider is physically in the office
Provider Package Includes:
($1500 per provider to cover level of effort start to finish)
- Ten patients per provider
- Set up with access to EMR
- Review three notes per patient
- Research time
- Write up report/review findings with staff
- Provide comprehensive documentation on each chart note reviewed that consists of findings and recommendations
- Discuss the findings of the chart reviews in detail
Questions about Chart Reviews?
Edafio Healthcare consulting team has decades of combined compliance experience in the healthcare industry. Our team has worked with numerous healthcare entities, business associates of covered entities, and other healthcare-related companies supporting their ongoing healthcare optimization needs.
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