Q: What guidance do you have for building a denial management team?
A: As with any team, it is important to have the right players working together with identified roles and responsibilities established for each. The members of the denials management team...Read More »
Determine the underlying cause of the altered mental status
Remember that the various forms of altered mental states have underlying causes, which, if defined, diagnosed, and documented, accurately represent the patient’s...Read More »
The work of a CDI professional can at times seem isolating and unimportant. Does it matter if a query gets answered? When we educate physicians and tell them what they document matters, are they listening?
Then a case comes along and demonstrates...Read More »
Q: Let’s say a provider documented chronic kidney disease (CKD), 2/2 hypertension (HTN), and diabetes mellitus (DM), and the stage of CKD was not specified, but lab results show patient was in stage 2. Could I assign codes for CKD, stage unspecified, Hypertensive CKD w/ stage 1-4, and...Read More »
In ICD-10-CM, defining, diagnosing, and documenting the various forms of altered mental status and their underlying causes remains an ongoing challenge for physicians and their facilities.
Even the esteemed New England Journal of...Read More »
According to the 2017 ACDIS Membership Survey, 73.68% of members find ACDIS Radio a beneficial piece of their membership experience. The bi-weekly talk show hosted by ACDIS Director Brian Murphy covers a wide-range of CDI-related news and topics through conversations with industry leaders, ACDIS...Read More »
