Q: Do your query templates ever include the clinical criteria needed to establish the diagnosis being queried when multiple choice diagnoses are offered? For example, on a sepsis query, does the query itself include the institutional criteria for establishing the diagnosis or is this...Read More »
Q: I am the team lead/educator for second level review staff, and our division is required to do an eight-hour education and team-building day. I am wondering if anyone has team-building exercises that they have done remotely to keep staff engaged and participating? We use Microsoft...Read More »
Q: I am interested in others’ approaches to certain risk adjustment diagnoses like malnutrition and pathology results. At our facility, the CDI department writes all the queries, so the coder will send a request to query to the CDI specialist if the attending physician has not...Read More »
Q: I’m looking to gather some insights on CDI productivity policies currently in use. Could anyone share the policies you’re implementing at the moment?
Response #1: Previously, we were expecting 25 accounts per day and a 25% query rate...Read More »
Q: Are there any coding guidelines that should be considered for NICU populations?
A: There are very specific coding guidelines concerning newborns, including conditions that arise following the hospital stay, that both coders and CDI...Read More »
A: For CDI programs that have CDI staff reviewing patient safety indicator (PSI) cases, how are PSI reviews set up? Do you have a dedicated CDI staff member for these reviews? Is it a shared task among the group or is there a PSI team? Do you meet regularly with the quality team, and...Read More »
Q: Consider a patient who is readmitted for postoperative pain control after a lung transplant two days prior. How would coders report this type of surgical complication in ICD-10-CM? In general, what are the guidelines for coding pain as a surgical complication of transplantations...Read More »
Q: Consider a patient who received a hysterectomy two days ago and was later admitted for severe acute abdominal pain around the surgical wound. When the wound was reopened, it was discovered that an instrument had been left in her body. The instrument was removed, and the wound was...Read More »
