Prior to joining HCPro, I’d been a reporter and editor for my hometown newspaper. It was a terrific job. I loved meeting new people, hearing their stories, and getting to share those prized moments with the rest of my community. I’ve been blessed to be able to play a similar role here at ACDIS...Read More »
by Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDI-P
What keeps healthcare chief financial officers (CFO) up at night? A recent article published by Becker’s Hospital Report covering CFOs’ top 2016 concerns found that many were worried about remaining profitable. How can this be?
For the past few years, healthcare professionals have focused on ICD-10 preparation. That prep work paid off—the transition has been largely successful. But facilities are experiencing a few bumps as their focus shifts from preparation to improvement of clinical documentation and coding. We...Read More »
No one thought ICD-10 implementation was going to be easy, but after a few months of working with the new code set, 19% called their implementation process just that—easy. Another 73% said implementation was only moderately challenging, and just a handful called it “difficult,” according to an...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD
Compliance represents one of the most important yet underappreciated goals of a CDI program. While my facility’s eight-year-old CDI project did not start out with compliance as an initial objective, we were able to identify and resolve its unintentional...Read More »
by Verona A. Lodholz, DC, MT(ASCP), CPC, CCDS
As you review all the numbers included in a complete blood count (CBC), are you gathering all the available information? Do you just look at the white blood count (WBC), hemoglobin (Hgb), hematocrit (Hct), H&H, and platelet count...Read More »
Q: We have a teenager with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and history of lupus nephritis who came into the ED with seizures. The physician admitted the patient with documentation of with status epilepticus and hypertensive urgency. The intensivists then documented hypertensive encephalopathy...Read More »
