The Incessant Struggle of Patient Status

Talk Ten Tuesdays by ICD10monitor

Oct 20, 202630:34Education

Why do patient status programs still struggle? Despite experienced utilization teams, inconsistency is incessant. During the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesday, Dr. Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, Chief Medical Officer of Phoeni...

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