Population health is exactly what it sounds like: the health of a given community or population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), population health provides “an opportunity for healthcare systems, agencies, and organizations to work together in order to improve...Read More »
We had a patient with Type 2 diabetes who was admitted for hypoglycemia with metabolic encephalopathy. The patient also had stage 2 chronic kidney disease (CKD) and a diagnosis of hypertension (HTN). Which ICD-10-CM codes should we assign for this patient’s encounter?Read More »
To celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday next week, the ACDIS offices will be closed starting on Thursday, November 28, and will reopen on Monday, December 3. As a result, there won’t be an issue of CDI Strategies next week either.Read More »
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a disease that affects infants who were born prematurely. The incidence of the condition is inversely proportional to the gestation age of the infant. It is a multifactorial disease that remains...Read More »
If the primary diagnosis is cerebral vascular accident (CVA), can we have a secondary diagnosis of hemiplegia to add a CC? Or is this considered in the same Major Diagnostic Category (MDC), diseases and disorders of the nervous system?Read More »
The ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee submitted comments to CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the recent proposed sepsis coding changes, supporting the proposal to update the sepsis codes to align with the sepsis-3 definition. Specifically, they suggested that...Read More »
We had a patient with Type 2 diabetes who was admitted for hypoglycemia with metabolic encephalopathy. The patient also had stage 2 chronic kidney disease (CKD) and a diagnosis of hypertension (HTN). Which ICD-10-CM codes should we assign for this patient’s encounter?Read More »
