Our providers tend to use the term “RDS” in their documentation to describe all “respiratory distress,” “respiratory distress syndrome of newborn...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 »
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 »
Each fall we join our revenue cycle, quality, and coding colleagues in a race to read and understand the impacts of the newest ICD-10-CM coding changes and the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule. As CDI professionals, we can have influence and impact with these changes. ...