The Congressionally mandated ICD-10 delay this spring gave providers an extra year to train and test for the transition, but also delayed implementation progress for a majority of providers, according to the latest...Read More »
Malnutrition is at its most basic level any nutritional imbalance. While it can be overnutrition, such as being overweight, obese, or morbidly obese, providers more commonly equate malnutrition with undernutrition, which is a continuum of inadequate intake, impaired absorption, altered transport...Read More »
Inpatient coders are familiar with risk-adjusted methodologies—where a combination of diagnoses lead to higher-weighted code groupings--but many outpatient coders may not have encountered them.
That's likely to change as hierarchical condition category (HCCs)
"[Recovery Auditors] are doing a really good job at identifying the patients who don't have sepsis, and they're taking the money back," says ACDIS Advisory Board member Robert S. Gold, MD, CEO of DCBA, Inc., in Atlanta.
Q:If the physician writes septic shock instead of sepsis do I need to query for sepsis or is this an integral part and sepsis would be the principal diagnosis and the septic shock would be secondary, making it a MCC?
There are many articles about the enhanced documentation required in ICD-10-CM. However, the real challenge will be ICD-10-PCS. It is a completely new code set and is not used in any other country than our own. ICD-10-PCS does not include...Read More »
