Strategies for positive impact on revenue integrity

• Follow the three-phase model — process review, analysis, review and revise — to perform a complete update of your chargemaster.
• Designate someone with extensive coding experience to verify/validate charges.
• Conduct a periodic chart-to-bill audit for each department.
• Bring charging and coding to one place on the front end.

See related article: How a 3-phase approach can rebuild your chargemaster