Standardization helps prevent confusion among different medical
terminologies and codes. This can improve efficiency because it
prevents misinterpretations among staff and ensures that documents
are dictated correctly and that claims are billed properly for payment.
Having standardization can cause an increase in productivity as well
because it will reduce the number of errors made. This causes claims
to be sent out faster which will make the billing process quicker
overall This is different with inpatient and outpatient coding because
inpatient coding uses ICD1 pcs and outpatient uses cpt codes.
Outpatient charts usually don’t have a definite diagnosis versus
inpatient coding.
