Q: I have come across an ethical dilemma. We have a small CDI program and a “home grown” application we use to report metrics to the chief financial officer (CFO). In this, we track whether a CDI specialist’s query captured a CC/MCC. If it is the...Read More »
Q: During a recent ACDIS Quarterly Conference Call a coder expressed discomfort regarding a nephrologist’s diagnosis of acute renal failure that did not meet RIFLE...Read More »
Q: We recently had a difficult case regarding a query for acute renal failure. Here is the scenario:
An 80-year-old woman came into the emergency room (ER) because she ran into the bumper of a car while driving her electric scooter and sustained a...Read More »
Q: Our lab does not calculate the Glomerular filtration rate(GFR) for patients over the age of 70. If I ask the physician to stage the chronic kidney disease (CKD), they ask me to calculate the GFR for them. If there a standard formula that should be used for this age group?Read More »