Q: How much does your CDI team focus on unspecified codes if it does not have an affect on the case? For example, a patient has hypertensive heart and CKD, unspecified with clinical indicators of CKD stage 3, but this was not clarified...Read More »
The NAHRI, ACDIS’ sister association, is currently seeking speakers to present at the 2019 Revenue Integrity Symposium. Additionally, ACDIS recently opened its call for speaker proposals for the 2019 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI.Read More »
Erica Braun, MS, BSN, RN, CCDS, is the manager of inpatient coding and clinical documentation at Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha. She has been in the CDI field for nine years.Read More »
In this edition of CDI Strategies, readers will find two articles asking for feedback regarding physician engagement activities (one an invitation to share success stories with ACDIS...Read More »
On an annual basis, sepsis affects about 1.7 million American adults. The infection is reportedly linked to more than 250,000 deaths. But new research says sepsis may not be true cause of the majority of those deaths.Read More »
