Clinical & Coding

"[Recovery Auditors] are doing a really good job at identifying the patients who don't have sepsis, and they...Read More »

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is conducting an ICD-10 implementation...Read More »

Q: The majority of the admissions I am reviewing this week are for an elderly population. It seems that they all have the...Read More »

by Robert S. Gold, MD

In 2004, the Coordination and Maintenance Committee created a definition of sepsis that became the basis of...Read More »

Q: Our physicians frequently document ‘meets sepsis criteria.’ Is this a bad habit forming? If the patient is septic, shouldn’t the...Read More »

AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM released its third round of ICD-10 coding guidance in its Second Quarter 2013 issue. HCPro CDI Education Director...Read More »

There are many articles about the enhanced documentation required in ICD-10-CM. However, the real...Read More »

CMS issued new guidance last week aimed at clarifying the so-called “two-...Read More »

Inpatient coders are accustomed to assigning a present-on-admission (POA)...Read More »