It may be too early to start intensive ICD-10-CM training for your coding and CDI team, but now is a good time to at least become familiar with...Read More »
It’s not enough to know whether heart failure is systolic or diastolic. Congestive heart failure (CHF), for example, isn’t an inherent component...Read More »
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one example of a condition for which coders and CDI specialists should understand clinical indicators before...Read More »
Over the years all authoritative coding sources referred to sepsis and septicemia as the same condition. Finally, in 2008, these coding references...Read More »
MS-DRG 432 (cirrhosis and alcoholic hepatitis with MCC) is one of many MS-DRGs slated for RAC validation audits by HealthDataInsights and Connolly...Read More »
The new, revised, and deleted ICD-9-CM codes, effective October 1, 2010, are now out. You can find them in a zip file on the CMS website, here:...Read More »
Despite some misconceptions to the contrary, a coder may report angina, unstable (411.1) if a physician documents any of the following diagnoses...Read More »
Attached is the powerpoint presentation The Power of Case Studies: Death Review and SOI/ROM, as presented by Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, Manager of Clinical Documentation Integrity and Utilization Review at Medical University of South Carolina.
Attached is the powerpoint presentation Best Practices at University of Washington Medical Center: Care Documentation as a Clinical Process, as presented by Mel Tully, MSN, CCDS, and Holly Flynn, RN, CCRN.
Attached is the powerpoint presentation Clinical Potpurri: A Review of Problematic Diagnoses, as presented by William Haik, MD, Director of DRG Review, Inc.
