Our facility has adopted a systemwide definition of sepsis (based on Sepsis-3) and we’re having success with educating most providers. Some of our infectious disease providers, however, like to use the term septicemia which codes to A41.9, Sepsis, unspecified organism. This is somewhat of a...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted the fiscal year (FY) 2021 ICD-10-CM final code changes. There were no changes to the proposed list of 490 new, 47 revised, and 58 invalidated codes that were released in...Read More »
Q: Our dietitians send cases needing a query for malnutrition to our CDI staff. Previously, they were notifying providers of the need for the documentation of the diagnosis directly, but from a compliance perspective, they were more comfortable with us owning the formal query...Read More »
Under what circumstances and when is it appropriate to code flash (acute) pulmonary edema and acute-on-chronic heart failure (diastolic or systolic or other)? Would we need to query for both as flash (acute) pulmonary edema unrelated to acute/chronic heart failure?Read More »
You would think that actually defining something would make it easier to recognize. That statement assumes, of course, that you can actually define what you’re trying to see. (I’m reminded of Justice Potter Stewart’s quote on obscenity, “I shall...Read More »