Ensuring hospital revenue integrity requires three operational pillars—clinical coding, CDI, and physician education, according to Kalispell (...Read More »
by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
The AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS had both its third and fourth quarter 2016 editions published at the same time this fall. The combined publication is very long—the longest I have ever reviewed—so let’s start by looking at some of the changes to...
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) announced a new...Read More »
During the 2015 Association for Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) Conference, a national work group of experienced pediatric CDI specialists including pediatricians, pediatric hospitalists, pediatric critical care physicians, nurses, and coding specialists was formed to...