Clinical & Coding

News: ICD-10 readiness survey from WEDI

October 24, 2013

CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 22

News, Clinical & Coding

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

Q&A: Determine the underlying cause of admission

October 17, 2013

CDI Blog - Volume 6, Issue 42

Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

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 »

Guest Post: Look for underlying infection, organ failure, when clarifying sepsis-related conditions

October 15, 2013

CDI Blog - Volume 6, Issue 40

ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

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&A: Documenting definitative sepsis

October 3, 2013

CDI Blog - Volume 6, Issue 39

Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

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

ICD-10 Coding Corner: Recap of Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2013

October 1, 2013

CDI Journal - Volume 7, Issue 4

Clinical & Coding

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 »

Tip: Prepare for ICD-10-PCS documentation concerns

September 26, 2013

CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 20

Clinical & Coding

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

2013 CDI Week Q&A: ICD-10 Preparation

September 18, 2013

Q&As

As part of the third annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.