"Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude."
Colin Powell
Medical Necessity and CDI
What is CDI's role?
Medical Necessity-What Role Does CDI Play?
Insufficient documentation and lack of medical necessity accounted for 87% of part A Inpatient improper payments identified by the CERT contractor in the 2018 Medicare -Fee-For-Service Supplemental Data Report.
This amounts to $5.1 billion, 4.3% of all improper payments for Medicare during the same time period. YOU can help fix that!
Questions Answered in this Webinar:
- How is medical necessity defined from a clinician’s perspective?
- What are the key elements of documentation that drive establishment of medical necessity?
- Why medical necessity is not just a requirement for facility payment from payers?
- What Is In it for Me (Physician) WIFFM?
- Why does achievement of medical necessity require a non-siloed team approach by healthcare stakeholders?
- How to truly engage physicians as willing participants in learning about, becoming more proficient in and employing best practice standards and principles of documentation clearly representative of physician clinical judgment, medical necessity and establishment of medical necessity?
BONUS WEBINAR INCLUDED
Immediate Access to this recording PLUS a Finally Friday! LIVE recording of the August 9 show on "Preventing vs. Managing Clinical Validation Denials"
