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Note from the Associate Editor: Behind the scenes of the January/February Journal

January 14, 2021
CDI Strategies - Volume 52, Issue 2

by Carolyn Riel

If you read ACDIS Editor Linnea Archibald’s,...Read More »

News: 502k healthcare jobs lost in 2020

January 14, 2021
CDI Strategies - Volume 52, Issue 2
News

The healthcare sector shed 502,000 jobs in total in 2020 as a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing shutdown of nonessential services,...Read More »

News: Racial minority COVID-19 patients at higher risk of diabetic ketoacidosis

January 14, 2021
CDI Strategies - Volume 52, Issue 2
News

55% of Black patients with both COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes also presented with diabetic ketoacidosis—a serious condition that can lead to coma...Read More »

News: OIG begins follow-up audit of outpatient services provided to inpatients

January 14, 2021
CDI Strategies - Volume 52, Issue 2
Denials & Appeals, News, Outpatient CDI

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) will be conducting a second round of audits to determine whether acute care hospitals are being...Read More »

Q&A: Toxic and metabolic encephalopathy

January 14, 2021
CDI Strategies - Volume 52, Issue 2
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Are you able to code both toxic (G92) and metabolic (G93.41) encephalopathy on the same patient and get both MCCs?Read More »

ACDIS update: Regulatory Committee releases new insight on COVID-19 treatments add-on payments

January 14, 2021
CDI Strategies - Volume 52, Issue 2
Clinical & Coding

Amid the many recent COVID-19 coding updates, it may have been easy to overlook Medicare’s new COVID-19 treatments add-on payment (NCTAP). The...Read More »

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