Q&A: Physician documentation related to substance overdoses

August 21, 2018
CDI Blog - Volume 11, Issue 166
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Education-Physicians & CDI

Q: What do you suggest the providers write to describe medication/substance overdose? In my...Read More »

Guest post: Defining “failure”

August 16, 2018
CDI Blog - Volume 11, Issue 163
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS

My colleague Dr. Douglas Campbell, my senior partner and mentor in all things CDI, dropped into...Read More »

News: FY 2019 ICD-10-CM Guidelines released

August 16, 2018
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 36
Clinical & Coding, News

Changes include clarification on the usage of “with,” updated sepsis guidance, and added guidelines for subsequent MIs.Read More »

Q&A: When sepsis isn’t the principal diagnosis

August 16, 2018
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 36
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: We recently had a patient who was admitted with sepsis POA and a UTI. When...Read More »

Note from the ACDIS Editor: Encephalopathy help for confusing times

August 16, 2018
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 36
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

By Linnea Archibald

While I’m tempted to start with a joke about encephalopathy being confusing, it turns out the ACDIS website...Read More »

Encephalopathy

August 15, 2018
Clinical & Coding, Regulations

With special guest Dawn R. Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, the CDI manager of education at Ardent Health Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN,...

Q&A: Choosing a principal diagnosis

August 14, 2018
CDI Blog - Volume 11, Issue 161
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: I’ve heard that if a condition cannot be identified as POA, it will not keep the criteria for a...Read More »

Q&A: CVA and stroke related to encephalopathy

August 9, 2018
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 35
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: Often, we get caught up on some clinical indicators that potentially...Read More »

News: FY 2019 IPPS final rule released, reduces quality reporting requirements

August 9, 2018
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 35
Clinical & Coding, News

An overhaul of the newly coined Promoting Interoperability Programs (PIP, formerly known as the Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs),...Read More »

Guest post: Clarifying recent ICD-10-CM Salter-Harris fracture coding advice

August 9, 2018
CDI Blog - Volume 11, Issue 158
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

by Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS

I was recently reviewing Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2018, and felt that the question...Read More »

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