title: Reading between the lines: building collaboration with ED clinicians can increase revenue.
abstract: Steps hospitals can take to enhance their ED billing, coding, and compliance include: Auditing records regularly to ensure ED nurses understand which procedures require specialized documentation. Determining whether assessment criteria would pass a compliance review. Ensuring ED documentation guidelines can be easily used by staff. Maintaining dated copies of revisions to these guidelines.
authors.affiliation: TeamHealth, Knoxville, TN, USA. Caral_Edelberg@TeamHealth.com
authors.forename: Caral
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Edelberg
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D014481:United States