IRF Physician Documentation: Increase Specificity and Decrease Queries

Quality physician documentation is the foundation of every patient’s medical record, and accurate coding is driven by timely, consistent, and patient-specific documentation. The need to query physicians due to a lack of detail and specificity could affect your IRF’s compliance and reimbursement. This presentation will explain how adding details to physician documentation will lead to the selection of more-specific ICD codes that will not only decrease the number of physician queries, but also better illustrate the patient’s medical necessity.