Clinical & Coding

CMS recently released the fiscal year (FY) 2023...Read More »

Join Karla Accorto, ACDIS Editor & Product Coordinator, and Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, interim director of...Read More »

Are there are any documentation or coding guidelines for when a patient is admitted for various reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine?Read More »

Hospitalists billed a significantly higher proportion Medicare beneficiaries as high-severity compared to non-hospitalists in a study published in...Read More »

An EHR integration tool (Jumpstart) that pushes goals-of-care guides to patients and their clinicians, leads to a higher documentation of care...Read More »

Can we use the phrase “no clinical indicators identified” on a clinical validation query?Read More »

During the March 9, 2022, meeting for the CMS Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) meeting, two proposals from the ACDIS Regulatory...Read More »

1. Is there a list or guidelines for what terminology is considered adequate to establish a link between two conditions, similar to
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What clinical information can be used to support the reported diagnosis of severe malnutrition and how would this be coded in ICD-10-CM?Read More »

by Lori Drodge, RHIT, CCS

The importance of knowledge sharing cannot be underestimated especially during this budget-infringing...Read More »