Q: I am part of a fairly new CDI department trying to amp-up our physician education/guidelines. To...Read More »
Q: I’ve been confused recently regarding coding from the pathology or radiology reports for specificity. It seems that in recent years, (I...Read More »
Q: When a provider states that the patient is admitted rule out (R/O) a myocardial infarction (MI) would the MI get coded as though it...Read More »
Q: The majority of the admissions I am reviewing this week are for an elderly population. It...Read More »
Q: The majority of the admissions I am reviewing this week are for an elderly population. It seems that they all have the...Read More »
Q: With electronic health records, many times the attending provider will “pull” the pathology or radiology report into their note...Read More »
Q: Our physicians frequently document ‘meets sepsis criteria.’ Is this a bad habit forming? If the patient is septic, shouldn’t the...Read More »
Q: If a pathologist serves as a “consulting physician,” why isn’t the coder allowed to code from his/her...Read More »
Q: If we were live with ICD-10 would we query for sepsis infectious...Read More »
Q: I had a question about whether or not queries can be used to question the documentation of a...Read More »