Q&A: Choosing a principal diagnosis between anemia and malignancy

June 29, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 29
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: If a patient is admitted for anemia related to a malignancy and is treated only for...Read More »

TBT: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses

June 29, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 87
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: Sometimes I confuse the secondary diagnosis for the primary diagnosis. Do you have any tips for me to help me discern...Read More »

Q&A: Lack of nursing documentation for clinical indicators

June 22, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 28
Ask ACDIS

Q: I’m running into a big problem with the nursing documentation. The nursing notes...Read More »

Q&A: Reporting plural effusion with congestive heart failure

June 15, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 27
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: At my institution, we typically do not capture the pleural effusions noted and...Read More »

Q&A: Rejections for claims for removing impacted cerumen

June 15, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 79
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: We have started receiving rejections for ED claims when the service involves removing impacted cerumen. We are reporting CPT® code...Read More »

Q&A: Respiratory failure as a principal diagnosis

June 8, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 26
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: When would respiratory failure be used as a principal diagnosis?...Read More »

Q&A: Best practices in time documentation

June 8, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 75
Ask ACDIS, Education

Q: What is the best way to document time spent by physicians performing procedures? The CPT® codes state a vague time amount but the...Read More »

Q&A: Understanding late effects

June 1, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 25
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS

Q: I am having difficulty understanding “late effects.” The statement of a “condition or nature of the late effect is sequenced first,”...Read More »

Q&A: Base MS-DRGs and the newborns/other neonates MDC

May 25, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 24
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: If the patient is a Medicare beneficiary, why wouldn’t a MS-DRG associated with the newborns and other neonates major diagnostic...Read More »

2017 Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey

May 23, 2017
Surveys
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Nearly four years ago, ACDIS published its last survey regarding CDI query practices. On Tuesday, May 23, ACDIS published the 2017 physician query benchmarking survey report, unpacking the details of the 361 survey respondent answers.

While the physician response rates rose significantly...

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