As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Rachelle Buol, RHIA, the director of coding and CDI at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, and a member of the 2019 CDI Week...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Terry Ann Simmons, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Hartford Healthcare HOCC Campus in New Britain, Connecticut,...Read More »
Q:I’ve been told that if there are clinical indicators to support that CKD is the etiology of a patient’s hypertension, a code from category I15 would be assigned. Code I12 is for hypertensive CKD, isn’t it? So why do we have...Read More »
Q: When a patient comes in with two diagnoses and the documentation reflects that either could be the principal diagnosis, do we choose the principal as the diagnosis that is being treated more intensely, or do we choose the higher paying DRG? Is it true that when a patient comes in...Read More »
Q: I’ve heard that the GMLOS is always rounded to the nearest whole number as inpatient claims are paid by day. Based on my understanding of the IPPS, I thought that each inpatient stay is paid by a fixed amount, regardless of the...Read More »
Q:I just had a case at work where the patient arrived in respiratory distress, was intubated, and was placed on a vent, treated with IV Solumedrol, HHN, IV antibiotics. The patient came upstairs on the vent. The physician...Read More »
ACDIS Podcast guests Caryl Liptak MSHAI, RHIA, system director of CDI and coding at Baptist Health Kentucky in Louisville, Kentucky, and Regene Collier, RN-BC, BSN, COS-C, HCS-D, the home health coding/CDI specialist manager at Baptist Health Kentucky, answered...Read More »
