Clinical & Coding

A sepsis surveillance and treatment initiative at Frederick Memorial Hospital has slashed the facility’s mortality rate for the deadly infection...Read More »

Q: We recently had a patient who was on oral Bactrim after a fracture who may have been non-...Read More »

Q: If both ETOH withdrawal and ETOH with intoxication were documented, should we code both F10.239...Read More »

By Rita Garcia, BAS, LVN, CCDS

The first time I read “airway protection” documented in the medical record, I realized it would...Read More »

Expert ACDIS 2019 conference speakers Rhoda Chism, RN, CCDS, and Laura White, MHA, provide an inside look on how their organization dealt with the...Read More »

Q: I remember reading an article, or a Coding Clinic, that basically said it was...Read More »

Join expert instructors Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, and Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC,...Read More »

By Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CCM, CDIP

Historically, providers outside of the hospital setting assigned their own codes...Read More »

By Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, and Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS

The rollout of the clinical validation process...Read More »