Coder productivity was a hot topic of conversation during the AHIMA pre-conference in Atlanta October 26-27. We all know coders will be less productive initially after the transition to ICD-10. The question is how much less productive?
Different speakers offered different opinions,...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 exists?Read More »
In a statistical brief released this August, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) ranked septicemia the most expensive condition treated in the United States—in...Read More »
If you need evidence to support the contention that physicians shouldn’t copy and paste information about their patients’ conditions from the previous days’ description, look no further than the October 8,...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 same admitting diagnoses: Failure to thrive (FTT), urinary tract infection (UTI), fever, dehydration, altered mental status...Read More »
