title: Pre-billing review will improve mortality index.
abstract: At Stony Brook University and Medical Center in Stony Brook, NY, clinical documentation specialists conduct pre-billing reviews of the charts of patients who die in the hospital to ensure that risk of mortality is accurately represented. Staff reviews charts of all patients with an expected mortality rate of 3 or lower. Review is pre-billing because publicly reported mortality data is based on billing information. When physician query is returned, coders can recode the chart.
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D019090:Case Management; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D009518:New York; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014481:United States