Sue is the coding supervisor and she performs an internal audit of the coding staff. The overall accuracy results are 85 percent, and the expectation is 95 percent. This is not good. So, Sue decides to eliminate the worst records as outliers in the data set of the audit in order to improve the score, which then becomes 94 percent and will make her and the department look better to the department director and administration. Is this ethical?
O Yes, it is only an internal audit criteria are determined by the coding supervisor and she has the power to change the parameters.
O Yes, if her department manager approves of the elimination of the records, there is no ethical issue.
O No, the audit criteria should not be altered for this reason.
O No, only the HIM Director can make changes to the parameters of the audit.