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Pull SDOH Information From EHRs With NLP

Question: Providers in our healthcare practice make it a priority to document social determinants of health (SDOH) during our patient encounters. However, the medical coding and billing service doesn’t always report the SDOH factors. How can we encourage the medical coders and billers to report the SDOH codes? Kentucky Subscriber Answer: Reporting SDOH is important to improving patients’ health and delivering optimal [...]
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