Clinical & Coding

A 12-year-old male developed umbilical discomfort Monday and didn't eat much dinner. On Tuesday, he started vomiting at school and the pain...Read More »

by Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS

Quadriplegia is a very familiar condition that would never go unnoticed and...Read More »

As CDI programs move deeper into the post-implementation world, staff are identifying those changes that are having the greatest effect on DRG...Read More »

by Karen Bridgeman, MSN, RN, CCDS

ICD-10-CM/PCS brought some new challenges in coding neonatal records. The term...Read More »

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

The AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD- 10-CM/PCS, Third Quarter 2015, opens with a...Read More »

Over the years we've collected a number of interesting and fun CDI-related holiday memes. We thought we'd share a few of them here as our featured...Read More »

by Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS

CMS scours all claims it processes for eligible discharges for the pneumonia readmission measure....Read More »

By Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP

Many clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists with clinical backgrounds are...Read More »

By Doreen V. Bentley

To understand how to appropriately assign codes for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI...Read More »

By Robert S. Gold, MD

The incidence sepsis cases within the United States has quadrupled while the length of stay of these cases...Read More »