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Director’s Note 4
Congress mucks around with ICD-10 implementation.

ACDIS position paper 5
Advisory Board offers insight into CDI roles and responsibilities.

Debating patient status 8
Trey La Charité, MD, discusses physician frustration with medical necessity of inpatient admissions.

ICD-10 documentation/coding tricks to master 10
Robert S. Gold, MD, discusses pneumonia, cardiomyopathy, and respiratory failure.

Ask ACDIS 13
Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, discusses pneumonia complications.

ICD-10-PCS use in outpatient coding 15
Andrea Clark, RHIA, CCS, CPC-H, makes the case for adding ICD-10-PCS coding training for hospital outpatient coding staff.

Outpatient CDI 16
Industry experts explain their experience in the outpatient arena.

Foreign medical graduates 20
Foreign-born physicians find new homes in CDI programs.

Meet a Member 21
Skagit Valley Hospital CDI staff start a program from scratch.