Clinical & Coding

by Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS

CMS scours all claims it processes for eligible discharges for the pneumonia readmission measure....Read More »

By Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP

Many clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists with clinical backgrounds are...Read More »

By Doreen V. Bentley

To understand how to appropriately assign codes for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI...Read More »

By Robert S. Gold, MD

The incidence sepsis cases within the United States has quadrupled while the length of stay of these cases...Read More »

ICD-10-CM/PCS requires increased specificity in the clinical documentation to support that specificity in coding, says Bonnie S. Cassidy,...Read More »

After three years’ worth of frustration and postponements ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation seems to have been much ado about nothing (to quote...Read More »

One of the biggest documentation problem areas pertaining to patient safety indicators (PSI), particularly related to PSI 90, stems from...Read More »

Ensuring a smooth ICD-10-CM/PCS transition required appropriate planning, education, staffing, and communication, explained founding ACDIS...Read More »

One of the biggest documentation problem areas pertaining to patient safety indicators (PSI), particularly related to PSI 90, stems from...Read More »

by Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP

Coronary artery disease (CAD) develops when the arteries that supply the blood to the heart...Read More »