Welcome to Coffee with the Coder^®, our conversation with Paula Digby and her team to address issues, observations and questions for Health Information Management professionals, physicians, auditors, payors and students. You are invited to listen in for ten to twenty minutes every other Monday and to submit your favorite questions or comments for Coffee with the Coder^® To receive text notifications send an email to help@AQ-IQ.com with your request. We will text you in the hour prior to the start of the next episode.

First, Paula Digby shares with the “Insiders” about coders being detail-oriented, including a “story from the road” that makes her point about facilities (and even coders) working in “silos”. During Episode 116, Ms Digby answers Anonymous with the documentation elements needed for outpatient therapy to be billed. Then she weighs in on a scenario described by Donna, from an acute facility: the diagnosis was documented by the physician and treated, but they were still denied by the payor. Congratulations to Donna for winning the “mugging”!  Click the mugshot of Candace to play this episode.

Dial in for Episode 117 on June 7th beginning at 10:10 am Eastern (7:10 am Pacific).