The American Medical Association’s (AMA) current procedural terminology (CPT) editorial panel approved sweeping changes to documentation and code selection guidelines for evaluation and management...Read More »
Q:I saw that there are separate codes for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute respiratory distress. What’s the difference between ARDS and acute respiratory distress?Read More »
The Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee met last week on March 5 and 6 to discuss proposed code changes in ICD-10-CM/PCS. The agendas for the meetings are available on the CMS...Read More »
Q:One of my CDI staff members recently asked me for resources to help differentiate between an acute PE/DVT and a chronic PE/DVT. She’s looking for anything that could help her explain the difference to a physician, but I’m...Read More »
“These were the two most educated trauma coding speakers I have heard, and I’ve been doing this for 13 years,” said one attendee of last year’s trauma CDI webinar of speakers Nicole Fox, MD, MPH, FACS, CPE, and Kristie Perry, RN, MHSA, CCDS, CCS.Read More »
A former Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) nurse accused the hospital chain of fraudulently billing the federal government for services at Regional Medical Center in San Jose, California, to inflate reimbursement.Read More »
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 »
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 »
