Join our amazing ACDIS Boot Camp instructors beginning on December 5 in Charleston, South Carolina for a look at how documentation affects quality metrics, including Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) and hospital-acquired infections (HAI), and more....Read More »
This October celebrates the eight month anniversary of the February release of the intellectually stimulating, yet controversial, third international consensus ...Read More »
The MS-DRG shift driven by the switch to ICD-10 will impact diagnoses throughout ICD-10-CM, says Gloryanne Bryant, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer with more than 30 years of experience in HIM.
Not otherwise specified (NOS) codes offer...Read More »
When Karen Elmore, RN, BSN, CCDS, documentation quality coordinator at Boone Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, was asked to help start a CDI program at her facility nearly eight years ago, she knew her background as a nurse educator would pay off.Read More »
A CFO will typically see the potential of program expansion quickly. The CDI program manager or administrator simply needs to demonstrate the current effectiveness of the program’s efforts compared to the potential benefits of an expanded program—a cost-benefit...Read More »
Q: I have a question about the following query. If the response is B, can you still capture it as withdrawal?
Based on these indicators taken from the medical record, please clarify by documenting on this query form and/or in the progress note the condition...Read More »