Unplanned readmissions may by overestimated by as much as 25%, according to a study by physicians in the neurological surgery and orthopedic surgery at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center presented at American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting in Miami...Read More »

By Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS

In my senior year of college the physician teaching our pathophysiology class gave the following assignment: “Define acute renal failure (ARF), based on signs, symptoms, lab findings, and cite abnormal laboratory values.”

I recall his...Read More »

Observation services increased 34% from 2007 to 2009, “from an average of 86.9 observation stay events per 1,000 inpatient admissions per month in 2007 to 116.6 in 2009,” according to a June article in the Journal...Read More »