No matter your holiday tradition, we all seem to share the almost mystical belief that this simple turning of the clock, this flip of the calendar, represents a magical reset button on our lives. We can suddenly envision a healthier, happier, more...Read More »
Over the years we've collected a number of interesting and fun CDI-related holiday memes. We thought we'd share a few of them here as our featured article to help you celebrate the season.
Physicians are constantly reminded that healthcare is undergoing significant change. October 2015 marked one more landmark change: the shift to ICD-10. Many physicians have worried about the transition and likely dreaded the loss of familiar...Read More »
CMS scours all claims it processes for eligible discharges for the pneumonia readmission measure. Every discharge that meets defined requirements counts regardless of whether the discharge resulted in a readmission. These eligible discharges are then...Read More »
Many clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists with clinical backgrounds are encoder dependent, trained to “code” using an encoder and taught to create a working MS-DRG based on grouper software. Many coders also rely on the...Read More »
To understand how to appropriately assign codes for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI), instead of just reporting the codes that correspond with each and every note in the record, coders need to take a closer look at the clinical...Read More »
The incidence sepsis cases within the United States has quadrupled while the length of stay of these cases and the mortality has decreased. And Recovery Auditors have denied numerous claims because, at least in part, CDI staff queried to get sepsis DRGs when...Read More »
