Departments it is important for all these departments

Departments
It is important for all these departments to follow written procedures for the success of
the reimbursement system. A claims submission audit and standards procedures review are audits
that can be used to determine whether the reimbursement impact is reached fully by the
departments. During a standards and procedures audit, written guidelines and procedures are
reviewed for effectiveness and to determine if any of them are outdated. A claims submission
reviews bills and medical records to determine if coding is being performed accurately. The
impact of these departments should be measured using surveys like the Hospital Consumer
Assessment Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). This survey allows the patient to
giver their perspective of the quality of care they received to the medical facility (Harrington,
2019). HCAHPS also prevents providers from providing services to patients in return for goods

Departmental Impact on Reimbursement
or gifts from certain medical facilities. An example of this would be only prescribing medication
in exchange for extra cash or gifts, even though this medication would not be the most beneficial
to the patient (Rauscher, 2008).
Activities
The clinical services department is tasked with recording all clinical documentation of the
patient; this includes which providers treated the patient and what treatment was delivered. The
next department is the patient accounts department which uses the information provided by the
charge description master to produce a bill for the payer. After the bill is transmitted on paper or
via electronic transmission the Health Information Management department is responsible for the
soft coding process for finalizing the chart. The last department, Administration is the final one