Clinical & Coding

Q: We are having trouble determining what qualifies a patient as having an...Read More »

ACDIS received an email from a member asking what the most common queried diagnoses are among CDI professionals. While we didn’t have the answer...Read More »

Q: Is it a coder’s responsibility to properly sequence secondary diagnoses or...Read More »

Q: Would a pressure ulcer be considered healing when the patient comes back...Read More »

by Crystal Stalter, CDIP, CCS-P, CPC

In addition to EHR use best practice which we discussed last week, another example of best...Read More »

By Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

I’m often asked about Salter-Harris fractures or growth-plate fractures while I’m teaching, so let’s...Read More »

Of ED visits attributable to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, aortic dissection, and subarachnoid...Read More »

Q: We recently had a patient who had a syncopal episode and fell, sustaining...Read More »

By Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC

We’re all very familiar with the reasons for not doing clinical validation—we shouldn't...Read More »

As with adult gastroenterological (GI) conditions, pediatric patients can experience a wide range of severity levels. One concern with pediatric...Read More »