Q: The 2016 CDI Pocket Guide states that four or more stents or vessels is equivalent to an MCC and changes the DRG. I understand that Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2015 defines the number of individual sites instead rather than anatomical vessels. The DRG Expert...Read More »
Q: At my facility, we are to “pull” bad or un-credible queries from patient charts and report the query to our manager. Is there any official guidance on this practice?Read More »
ACDIS hit a number of milestones in the last year—5,000 members, 3,400 CCDS holders, nearly 2,000 conference attendees. While we’re excited to see our numbers grow, every now and then, we’re contacted by a member unaware of the resources available to them. We want you to be able to make the most...Read More »
AHIMA recently published a clinical validation practice brief in the July 2016 Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, available to AHIMA members on ...Read More »
Kay Kolb RN, MSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Kettering Health Network in Ohio has done a little bit of everything before entering CDI in 2003.Read More »
With the release of the 2017 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule on August 2, 2016, CMS announced a delay in implementation of the NOTICE act. CMS is submitting a revised version of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON...Read More »
Melinda Scharf, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, regional clinical documentation integrity educator at St. Joseph Hospital in Irvine, California, has worked in CDI since 2008 after serving as a pediatric nurse for 10 years and an ER nurse for 11.