Jennifer Crumb, RN, BSN, CCDS, will be presenting “Navigating the Ice Age in CDI: When You Are Holding on to the Iceberg,” on Day 1 of the ACDIS conference along with Jennifer Woodworth, RN, BSN, and Ashlyn Hard, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIS.Read More »
Q:What would be the ideal way to code a case where a patient has ongoing encephalopathy after a subdural hematoma multiple years ago? I keep seeing documentation as a brain injury with ongoing encephalopathy, but is...Read More »
Q:We recently had a patient with a pleural effusion who came to the hospital for shortness of breath. The patient had a bronchoscopy, left video-assisted thoracoscopy, evacuation of pleural effusion, pleural biopsies,...Read More »
Q: I’m trying to decide between the codes F14.121 (Cocaine abuse with intoxication with delirium) and T40.5X5A (Adverse effect of cocaine, initial encounter). The patient presented to the emergency department with altered mental status...Read More »
Q:Why would the principal diagnosis be catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) when sepsis is also present? I thought it would be always be sepsis. Read More »
As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Kristie Perry, RN, MHSA, CCDS, CCS, a CDI specialist at Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga,...Read More »
As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Caryn Nowak, RHIT, CDIP, a clinical documentation integrity specialist at Rady Children’s Hospital...Read More »
