Our facility has adopted a systemwide definition of sepsis (based on Sepsis-3) and we’re having success with educating most providers. Some of our infectious disease providers, however, like to use the term septicemia which codes to A41.9, Sepsis, unspecified organism. This is somewhat of a...Read More »
Sepsis and its various disease progressions and complications result in nearly 270,000 deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Furthermore, a number of patients sick with COVID-19 have experienced an immune response called a ...Read More »
As CDI Week gets closer, we’re getting more and more excited to celebrate with this year’s theme of ACDIS Cinema-CDI: Coming to an Organization Near You! If you haven’t already, mark your calendars for September 14-18 and join us for the...Read More »
We are already over halfway through this whirlwind of a year. Many local chapters have had to reschedule events, change them to be virtual seminars instead of in-person, or cancel them all together. Local chapters have supported others in offering free webinars throughout the pandemic available...Read More »
No matter the level of training and preparation you put into implementing a new technology, you’ll likely still encounter some struggles along the adoption journey. Inevitably, regardless of the project, there will always be a few troublesome providers, according to Vaughn Matacale, MD,...Read More »
When times get tough—and boy, they have been a bear these last few months—CDI professionals have a wonderful way of rising to the occasion. Our recent impact of COVID-19 on CDI departments...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted the fiscal year (FY) 2021 ICD-10-CM final code changes. There were no changes to the proposed list of 490 new, 47 revised, and 58 invalidated codes that were released in...Read More »