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payments for telehealth services under the physic
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in poor data quality. It’s imperative to have a s
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BY LISA A. ERAMO, MA S ports teams do it before a
systems correctly,” he says. “Somewhere between t
Another reason is the blame-free culture i
to the admission and whether it demonstrates safe
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Industry professionals weigh in on how to keep
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their efforts to pinpoint problem areas and optim
the physician’s documentation is sufficiently uncl
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adverse clinical implications,” he says. However,
How the speech recognition software was em
well as reviews that may have occurred by other p
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