Clinical & Coding

The ACDIS Regulatory Committee is tasked with the reviewing regulatory policy, coding, and clinical updates, commenting to agencies on behalf of...Read More »

Last month, we published a list of all the COVID-19 related resources we have available for CDI professionals. As the pandemic continues to evolve...Read More »

by Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CEMC, CRC, CCDS, CCDS-O

The American Hospital Association recently published a...Read More »

Getting clinical conditions appropriately documented is not a new problem in medicine, especially in pediatrics. This is particularly true for...Read More »

by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
It’s springtime! Daffodils are sprouting, birds are nesting, and our first...Read More »

Q: I just listened to the April 1...Read More »

by Linnea Archibald
Since the United States reported its first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in early January 2020,...Read More »

Q: Can we code COVID-19 in the absence of a definitive lab test, if the physician documents the diagnosis?Read More »

If a hospital-acquired condition (HAC) or patient safety indicator (PSI) is assigned as not present on admission (POA), how does it affect our...Read More »

Speech-to-text transcription solutions have been touted as a way to reduce physician documentation burdens, but a study published in the ...Read More »