An overhaul of the newly coined Promoting Interoperability Programs (PIP, formerly known as the Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs), significant reductions to reporting requirements for quality initiatives, updates to payment rates, and changes CC/MCC designations for some conditions,...Read More »
Q:Often, we get caught up on some clinical indicators that potentially introduce encephalopathy, for example, if patient has vascular dementia or other structural issues that might contribute to encephalopathy. Can you help...Read More »
Q: What is the difference between ICD-10-CM code I24.8 (other forms of acute ischemic heart disease) and code I21.A1 (myocardial infarction type 2)? In which situation would each of these codes be reported? Read More »
Q:The coders at our facility recently asked CDI to teach the providers to write EtOH use “disorder” or cocaine use “disorder,” so that they can code it to EtOH abuse and cocaine abuse. Do you agree with this request from the...Read More »
Q:Our neurologist often documents encephalopathy for many of our patients. If an elderly patient came in with altered mental status (AMS), delirium, and has baseline dementia, can we code encephalopathy? What if the physician...Read More »
Because coroners and medical examiners did not specify the drugs contributing to death, potentially 70,000 opioid-related overdose deaths from 1999-2015 were excluded from national figures.Read More »