Editor’s Note: There are only 18 more days until the 10th Annual ACDIS Conference! Over the past few months, we’ve spoken to several speakers and provided their thoughts on the ACDIS Blog. Recently, we...Read More »
Q: If the acute respiratory failure is due to pneumonia and the respiratory failure resolves rather quickly, but the patient remains in the hospital for treatment of pneumonia, shouldn’t pneumonia be sequenced as the principal diagnosis? The basis of this question is not solely about...Read More »
Healthcare in America is in flux. Although tabled on Friday, March 24, the proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA) – the attempted replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) –nevertheless raises many healthcare policy questions and uncertainty regarding the status of previous pay-for-...Read More »
Q: If a patient is in a three-tiered DRG, but has a three-day length of stay (LOS), is it correct that the next review need not occur till the LOS equals or exceeds three days? Do we need to capture a possible CC or MCC?