RE: [MARKETING] ABL Anemia/Clinical Indicator Query
Katy,
I'd use that great query form you shared to query to ask for further information to support the diagnosis. If it's not treated or monitored and the clinical indicators are present then is the provider bumping up severity artificially, or have your staff queried so often that he now does it to avoid the query?
I for one would ask for some further justification of the diagnosis if you have a definition of "acute blood loss anemia" you could share, that would even be better. As always, this would be a query which could also help give the provider some education as well J
Robert
Robert S. Hodges, BSN, MSN, RN, CCDS
Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist
VHA CDI Council Member
Aleda E. Lutz VAMC
Mail Code 136
1500 Weiss Street
Saginaw MI 48602
P: 989-497-2500 x13101
F: 989-321-4912
E: Robert.Hodges2@va.gov
VA Core Values: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, Excellence (“I CARE”)
VA Core Characteristics: Trustworthy, Accessible, Quality, Innovative, Agile, Integrated
"We are dealing with Veterans, not procedures; With their problems, not ours." --General Omar Bradley
I'd use that great query form you shared to query to ask for further information to support the diagnosis. If it's not treated or monitored and the clinical indicators are present then is the provider bumping up severity artificially, or have your staff queried so often that he now does it to avoid the query?
I for one would ask for some further justification of the diagnosis if you have a definition of "acute blood loss anemia" you could share, that would even be better. As always, this would be a query which could also help give the provider some education as well J
Robert
Robert S. Hodges, BSN, MSN, RN, CCDS
Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist
VHA CDI Council Member
Aleda E. Lutz VAMC
Mail Code 136
1500 Weiss Street
Saginaw MI 48602
P: 989-497-2500 x13101
F: 989-321-4912
E: Robert.Hodges2@va.gov
VA Core Values: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, Excellence (“I CARE”)
VA Core Characteristics: Trustworthy, Accessible, Quality, Innovative, Agile, Integrated
"We are dealing with Veterans, not procedures; With their problems, not ours." --General Omar Bradley