How well do you know your Management Team?
This leader has "1 million" salt and pepper shakers in their basement.
Who is Denita Espitia.
This guides everything we do by advancing the health of our communities through excellence and discovery while inspiring people to live their unique best life.
What is our Mission?
This happens when documentation doesn’t support the assigned code.
What is a coding denial (or audit finding)?
This principle limits disclosures to only what is needed to fulfill the request.
What is the minimum necessary standard?
This process ensures every document is legible, indexed correctly, and belongs to the right patient.
What is document quality review?
This leader has a wall of can coozies in the garage from each place she and her husband have stopped over the last 20 years.
Who is Kristen Aumann?
Being a trusted partner and transforming health care for everyone, every day defines this future-focused aspiration.
What is our Vision?
Coders use these to clarify documentation—not to guess.
What are physician queries?
This role’s biggest fear is releasing the wrong patient’s information.
Who is ROI / Data Integrity staff?
Scanning this upside down is guaranteed to ruin someone’s day.
What is a consent form? 😄
This supervisor came in first place in her division in an archery league in 2024.
Who is Nickole Wefler, Scanning Supervisor?
This guiding principle calls us to trust one another and treat all people with compassion, dignity, and kindness.
What is Integrity & Respect?
For this designation, the condition must increase length of stay, nursing care, or treatment.
What is a CC/MCC?
This must be verified before releasing records to ensure they belong to the correct individual.
What is patient identity verification?
A organizational body that accredits hospitals.
What is the Joint Commission?
This leader has driven an "Indy Car" in Las Vegas at 146mph!
Who is Laura Miller?
Being bold and resilient by reinventing innovative ways to improve health reflects this guiding principle.
What is Radical Transformation?
Assigning a diagnosis without clear provider documentation violates this HIM professional standard.
What is the coding compliance standard / ethical coding practice?
This type of information often requires special authorization to release.
What is specially protected information (e.g., SUD, mental health, HIV)?
This record issue occurs when pages are missing, signed late, or incomplete.
What is an incomplete record?
This leader can dead lift 300 lbs.
Who is Maria Van Buren?
As Froedtert ThedaCare Health, we describe ourselves as this kind of force for fundamentally enhancing health for those we serve—including ourselves.
What is an unstoppable force?
The condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital
What is principle diagnosis?
This happens when multiple or incorrect patient records exist in the system.
What is a data integrity issue (or duplicate medical record)?
This HIM step ensures documents can actually be found in the EHR later.
What is indexing?