Clinical & Coding

Healthcare spending in the United States is notoriously...Read More »

Twenty-five percent of hospitalized Medicare patients experience patient harm, and 43% of those harm events could have been prevented according to...Read More »

Q: I’ve heard that the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) criteria cannot be applied to diagnose...Read More »

The National Quality Forum (NQF) rejected an appeal of its decision to endorse the...Read More »

Hospitalists coded a significantly higher proportion of Medicare beneficiaries as high severity compared to non-hospitalists, according to a study...Read More »

Q: I know that CMS doesn’t classify morbid obesity as a comorbid complicating condition (CC) as a secondary diagnosis. Can you...Read More »

​Q: I recently heard an example where a patient with a principal diagnosis of lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and...Read More »

Only an estimated 1.5% of diagnoses at four pediatric intensive care units (PICU) were incorrect, according to new research presented at...Read More »

The establishment of ...Read More »

​Q: I had a recent case where the nephrologist and cardiologist both documented hypertensive (HTN) emergency, but the attending...Read More »