Chris Berg, RHIA
Ambulatory services consultant
Clinical documentation integrity, Coding and classification, Revenue cycle
Chris Berg, RHIA, CCS, CCDS-O, CHC is an ambulatory services consultant for 3M Health Information Systems. She has over 30 years of experience in the health care field, including extensive experience in outpatient coding and documentation integrity. Her background includes positions of emergency department coder, ambulatory surgery coder and quality auditor, clinical information manager, and outpatient clinical documentation integrity (CDI) manager. Chris also held a position as adjunct faculty member in the HIM program at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. As an ambulatory services consultant, she provides advisory services for ambulatory CDI, clinical coding and revenue cycle management to 3M clients.
All posts by Chris Berg, RHIA
Blog post
Jan. 31, 2022 / By Chris Berg, RHIA
As a clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and coding professional, I’ve often heard the statement: If it’s not documented, it wasn’t done. I have used this statement educating physicians and nurses […]
Blog post
Oct. 13, 2021 / By Chris Berg, RHIA
According to the Center for Disease Control’s National Diabetic Statistics Report 2020, there are 34 million people in the United States that have diabetes. That is 11 percent of the […]
Blog post
April 30, 2021 / By Chris Berg, RHIA
Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) have been used in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) risk adjustment payment model since 2004. That’s 17 years! More and more HIM professionals […]