This week, you have explored the relationship between documentation and coding, including DRGs and CCs and MCCs. This assignment asks you to further explore this topic and demonstrate your understanding of it by explaining it to hospital staff. Imagine that you are the Coding Supervisor at a large acute care hospital. The Chief of Staff has asked you to help him prepare next month’s training presentation during the monthly medical staff lunch training. This month’s training is on the impact of documentation on hospital reimbursement under the MS-DRG system. Explored the relationship between documentation and coding, including DRGs and CCs and MCCs.
This assignment asks you to further explore this topic and demonstrate your understanding of it by explaining it to hospital staff. Create a 1-2 page (250-500 word) a written explanation of why documentation is essential to capturing the optimal reimbursement under the MS-DRG system that the Chief of Staff can use to create his training. Your explanation should include the following:
1. A detailed explanation of why documentation is essential to capturing the optimal reimbursement under the MS-DRG system, 2. A specific example of fully optimized MS-DRGs, 3.Specific examples of non-fully optimized MS-DRGs, and 4. A comparison and contrast of your examples.
