This year’s ACDIS conference on May 7-9 offers in-depth CDI training to prepare...Read More »
CMS released a draft version 31 of the MS-DRG grouper for...Read More »
by Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS The diagnosis and documentation of respiratory failure continues to be challenging for coders,...Read More »
According to a December 2013 poll on the ACDIS website (http://tinyurl.com/okwba9a), 45% of respondents...Read More »
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AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM released its Third and Fourth Quarter 2014 edition of ICD-10 coding guidance. HCPro...Read More »
Q: We recently had a case where the patient was admitted for “sepsis secondary to a urinary infection (UTI) with chronic...Read More »
"[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 »