The largest source of estimated revenue loss in the healthcare mid-cycle in 2016 was attributed to inadequate documentation, according to a report by the Advisory Board.Read More »
The improper payment rate for hospital outpatient services for the 2016 CERT report period was 5.4%, at a projected cost of $3.1 billion, which accounts for 7.5% of the overall Medicare fee-for-service improper payment rate.Read More »
Q:A patient had a kidney/pancreas transplant. The dialysis fistula he had is not working, but remains in place and unused for over a year. He has stable stage IV CKD. His diabetes is no longer being treated, and A1c,...Read More »
Q:What would be the ideal way to code a case where a patient has ongoing encephalopathy after a subdural hematoma multiple years ago? I keep seeing documentation as a brain injury with ongoing encephalopathy, but is...Read More »
Before my time in CDI, in the cold, deep darkness of the ED night, sepsis was an annoyance. Everywhere there was a sepsis flag popping up in the EHR, few of which actually meant anything.Read More »
One of the wonderful things that time allows us is the ability to look back with an experienced eye and either learn from the past or at the very least have some fun with it.
I remember my first weeks as a CDI specialist as if it just happened....Read More »
Q:We recently had a patient with a pleural effusion who came to the hospital for shortness of breath. The patient had a bronchoscopy, left video-assisted thoracoscopy, evacuation of pleural effusion, pleural biopsies,...Read More »