You are interning at a physician practice, and the practice has decided that three months before implementation of ICD-11-CM, it will run dual systems to practice with the new code set. It has redesigned the electronic health record (EHR) to include the new terminology and associated ICD-11-CM codes.
Your discussion assignments follow:
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One-week trial |
Doctor 1 |
Doctor 2 |
Doctor 3 |
Number of patients seen |
25 |
28 |
30 |
Number of patient cases that had insufficient information for accurate coding |
Five |
15 |
13 |
Average time for the doctor to respond to coder query |
Under one day |
One to two days |
Four days |
Average time between patient visit and bill submitted |
One day |
Three days |
Five days |