Question

Describe how you can manage the staffing differences of qualified coding staff in the following scenarios: hospital inpatient coding department, ambulatory surgery center, large multispecialty clinic, and family practice. Of the three organizational threats, natural, human, and environmental, discuss the most common threat, and why? Also, include how the other threats can impact an organization.

Answer 1

Coding staff are important for healthcare setting so that  medical charts of patients currently in the hospital to diagnose the code can match. It helps immensely for hospital to minimize  DNFB (Discharge Not Final Billed) and increase cashflow stream to the hospital. For hospital inpatient coding department when there will be shortage of staff, I will make a plan for prioritizing task according to the likely discharge date of the patient. In ambulatory surgery center I will keep some junior level personnel to deploy and work for coding department for the time being we will fulfill the vacancy. In large multispeciality clinic we will keep adequate staff and a pool of reserved staff to do the coding task immediately. For family practice this task can be outsourced to third party if staff is not present. I think the most common threat is human threat because the threat is due to shortage of manpower and human being. In managing staff human factor plays crucial role because it all concerned about the human being associated with the firm.Natural and environmental factors can also impact the organization because these two threats are also important for the survival of the organizarion.