Sidebar: Top 10 Most Over-Documented HCCs
- Conditions that have been surgically corrected (e.g., abdominal aortic aneurism)
- Diabetes with complications
- Malnutrition
- Nephritis
- Pathological fractures (e.g., old pathological fractures reported as current)
- Pneumococcal pneumonia (e.g., unspecified pneumonia reported as pneumococcal)
- Polyneuropathy (e.g., reported as current when no treatment, evaluation, or monitoring is documented)
- Primary site cancers (e.g., indicating historical conditions as current)
- Strokes (e.g., indicating acute stroke instead of late effect of stroke)
- Vascular disease (e.g., reported as current when no treatment, evaluation or monitoring is documented)
Source: 3M aggregated claims data
