For each question, provide an answer using complete sentences. Include arguments and examples, where appropriate, to support or illustrate your answers.

The textbook describes three coding tools:

Facility$-$specific coding guidelines

Coding and abstraction platforms

Computer$-$assisted coding.

Select which tool is most important; support your decision with at least two pieces of evidence.

$2.$ Describe three criteria that a CDI manager could use to determine if a query is compliant.

Revenue Compliance

When determining which medical records to include in an audit, coding managers can use probability sampling techniques or nonprobability sampling techniques. Following is a list of both techniques. Pick one sampling from each technique and illustrate when they would be used for auditing.

Probability Sampling Techniques

Simple random sampling

Systematic random sampling

Stratified random sampling

Cluster sampling

Nonprobability Sampling Techniques

Judgement sampling

Quota sampling