Clinical & Coding

Less than a year after CMS finalized the three-year phaseout of the inpatient-only (IPO) list to be completed by 2024, the agency is looking to...Read More »

The fiscal year (FY) 2022...Read More »

Our providers tend to use the term “RDS” in their documentation to describe all “respiratory distress,” “respiratory distress syndrome of newborn...Read More »

By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC

The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Coding Clinic always...Read More »

According to our software vendor, you can only code liver lacerations as minor, moderate, or major. According to all the educational materials I...Read More »

The fiscal year 2022 ICD-10-CM codes have been released by the Centers for Disease Control...Read More »

by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS, and Lynn Shay, CPHQ
If you’re like us, the COVID-19 era has played havoc with your usual CDI...Read More »

by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS

You would think that actually defining something would make it easier to recognize. That...Read More »

by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS

Each fall we join our revenue cycle, quality, and coding colleagues in a race to read and...Read More »

I believe there was a Coding Clinic several years ago where the diagnosis of “mental incompetence” was changed to “intellectual disability,” but I...Read More »