When faced with a body mass index (BMI) denial, I have used the following Coding Clinic references with no luck:
Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter, 2018, p. 77: "obesity and morbid obesity are always clinically significant and reportable when documented by the provider. In
It’s Health Information Professional (HIP) Week and that makes it the perfect time to celebrate the HIM professionals in our lives! Whether your CDI team includes HIM/coding credentialed individuals or not, CDI professionals by nature of their roles interact...Read More »
Does anyone review inpatient psyche as part of their workflow? We are being asked to explore this and have done a small sample of reviews. We are finding minimal outcomes of any kind, but we do not really understand how these are paid (for Medicare). Does anyone have any experience with this...Read More »
It’s easy to complain about CMS rules, regulations, and coding guidance from the likes of the Cooperating Parties or the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Coding Clinic. Certainly, over the years we’ve seen guidance we’ve disagreed with, or believed...Read More »
In a report by the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, and Japanese Heart Failure Society published in the...Read More »
I have a patient admitted with COVID-19 pneumonia and acute on chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia. The patient denied any chest pain. Routine chemistries revealed an elevated troponin level of 0.09; on repeat the level was 0.21 (reference range <0.10). The electrocardiogram (EKG)...Read More »
A new report written by researchers at the Urban Institute found that differences in the quality of hospitals that Black and white patients have...Read More »
