Ask ACDIS: Midlevel advanced practice providers answering queries

November 1, 2017
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: My facility is discussing querying advanced practice providers (APP). Does ACDIS have any official opinion on this? To clarify, the...Read More »

Note from the Instructor: Your 2018 IPPS Final Rule questions, answered

November 1, 2017
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

By Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
On October 1, 845+ codes took effect thanks to the fiscal year 2018 IPPS Final Rule, which...Read More »

Q&A: Acceptable documentation for HCCs

October 26, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 146
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: What clinical documentation is acceptable to pull Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) information from for reporting purposes? Would...Read More »

Q&A: Coding ongoing encephalopathy after a subdural hematoma

October 19, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 50
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: What would be the ideal way to code a case where a patient has...Read More »

Q&A: When to query for pleural effusion etiology

October 12, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 49
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries

Q: We recently had a patient with a pleural effusion who came to the...Read More »

Q&A: Coding mixed cardiogenic and septic shock

October 12, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 142
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: If the attending documented, “likely mixed cardiogenic and septic shock,” can I assign codes R57.0 and R65.21?

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Q&A: Coding adverse effects versus poisonings

October 5, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 48
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: I’m trying to decide between the codes F14.121 (Cocaine abuse with intoxication...Read More »

Q&A: Reporting right-sided heart

September 28, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 138
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: If you have an acute exacerbation of a chronic right heart failure (CHF) with a preserved ejection fraction (EF)— above 55%—can you...Read More »

Q&A: CAUTI and sepsis sequencing

September 28, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 47
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: Why would the principal diagnosis be catheter-associated urinary...Read More »

CDI Week Q&A: CDI and Technology

September 22, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 134
Ask ACDIS, CDI Management

As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a...Read More »

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