by Kay Piper, RHIA, CDIP, CCS
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I wish there was a code for that?” Good news! You can make your dreams come true by submitting a code proposal to the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M). in this article, I’m going to walk you...Read More »
As the holidays pass by, it turns out that I’m the guy who was supposed to write a thank you note but never did. The thank you note is to ACDIS for throwing another fine Annual Conference this past May, this time at the Gaylord Palms Resort in...Read More »
Q: Our coding team has established their own clinical criteria for a specific diagnosis despite what the physician is documenting and the clinical validity of those diagnoses. Could you please advise?Read More »
By Julian Everett, BSN, RN, CDIP
I clearly remember the day my director told me I’d be reviewing our pediatric mortality cases. I didn’t know where to begin, and our pediatric CDI program was only a year old. Before I could start tackling the problem, I had to learn as much about...Read More »
by Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS
In response to providers’ complaints of burdensome regulatory documentation, CMS proposed in July 2018 to reduce the number of evaluation and management (E/M) levels to two and reduce documentation requirements for...Read More »
by William E. Haik, MD, FCCP, CDIP
Complex pneumonias such as Gram-negative bacterial pneumonias and aspiration pneumonias segregate to a higher-weighted MS-DRG (MS-DRGs 177–179 [Respiratory Infections and Inflammations]) than simple pneumonias such as Streptococcus pneumoniae...Read More »
