Functional quadriplegia should be considered with patients diagnosed with severe, end-stage dementia or an advanced progressive neurogenerative disorder such as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cerebral palsy, or Huntington’s disease. The nursing admission functional...Read More »
Because of the industry’s confusion over sepsis criteria sets, organizations find it difficult to decide which guidelines to follow for their sepsis documentation.
“Many third-party payers have adopted Sepsis-3 criteria, which is not in line with what CMS is doing,” says ...Read More »
I've been told that if there are clinical indicators to support that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the etiology of a patient’s hypertension, a code from category I15 would be assigned. Code I12 is for hypertensive CKD, isn’t it? So why do we have to use I15 codes instead? What’s the main...Read More »
Most now know some of COVID-19’s tell-tale symptoms and previous studies have shown the preponderance of complicating conditions such as ...Read More »
As the United States enters the flu season, the American Medical Association (AMA) released two new CPT codes on October 7 for reporting antigen tests that...Read More »
The ACDIS Regulatory Committee has created templates for CDI and coding professionals’ use to express their support for the new COVID-19 codes,...Read More »
