Clinical & Coding

by Robert S. Gold, MD

I challenge you to find one textbook of medicine, physiology, or pathology that refers to a category of...Read More »

The transition from ICD-9-CM Volume 3 procedure codes to ICD-10-PCS will be by all accounts a significant adjustment, writes Shannon E. McCall...Read More »

by Abby Steelhammer, MBA, MHA, RN

Learning how documentation opportunities can maximize efficiency and overall cost-effectiveness is...Read More »

by Trey La Charité, MD
Every institution reading this column has likely received its first recovery audit contractor (RAC) denials...Read More »

Attached is a supplement to the October 2010 issue of CDI Journal. It provides important updates every CDI specialist should know...Read More »

CDI specialists need to use all the tools available in their documentation training box to effectively change physician behavior. Educational...Read More »

Patients who survive sepsis infections face a long battle with cognitive and physical decline, according to research from University of Michigan...Read More »

MS-DRG 432 (cirrhosis and alcoholic hepatitis with MCC) is one of many MS-DRGs slated for RAC validation audits by HealthDataInsights and Connolly...Read More »

Three years. That’s how long you have to prepare for the implementation of the International classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10)....Read More »

by Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC-I, CCDS