Improving Critical Care Documentation and Billing Amongst Pediatric Hospital Medicine Providers

Variability in billing and coding among physicians often exists due to a lack of physician knowledge regarding billing. Billing errors or omissions can lead to significant institutional financial repercussions. The aim of our project is to improve clinical documentation and billing practices for specific critical care diagnosis (sepsis, respiratory failure due to bronchiolitis and status asthmaticus) by 25% from July 2017-December 2017 among Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) providers at a …