title: Defining medical record and finance department relationship.
abstract: The role of the medical record department has become more crucial under DRGs. Timeliness and accuracy of clinical data has become critical to the hospital's financial success. As a result, a new relationship is forming between the finance and medical record departments. It is therefore important that the financial manager understand the operation of this department to make that new relationship a strong one.
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D005376:Financial Management; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008500:Medical Records Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006278:Medicare; D012380:Role; D014481:United States