The public ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting, held on September 15-16, 2026, hosted a discussion of 23 proposals involving procedure code topics, all of which were in some way related...Read More »
Consuming less than 0.6 g/kg of protein a day correlated with higher risks of kidney failure and death, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network. Compared with patients consuming the highest...Read More »
Q: How do the clinical consequences of measles and rubella influence ICD-10-CM code selection, particularly when coding specific complications, congenital rubella syndrome, and infections documented without complications?
Outpatient follow-up after psychiatric hospitalization among patients with first-admission schizophrenia was associated with a significantly lower risk of readmission, according to a new study...Read More »
Artificial intelligence (AI)-guided monitoring with clinician alerts appeared feasible in patients recently discharged after a hospital stay for heart failure (HF). It did not, however, reduce rehospitalizations or the composite of rehospitalizations, emergency visits, and death, a...Read More »
Three newly released compliance audits from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) highlight significant gaps between high-risk diagnosis codes submitted for Medicare Advantage risk adjustment and the medical records supporting those diagnoses. The...Read More »
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who currently use TNF inhibitors or interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor inhibitors had higher rates of first-time bloodstream infections than those who had no current use of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs,...Read More »
Q: How should a coder handle the documentation and coding of a fragility fracture when the underlying cause, such as osteoporosis, has not been clearly established?
A: Providers often use the term fragility fracture in their...Read More »
