Clinical & Coding

The ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee submitted comments to CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the recent...Read More »

By Brett Hoggard, MD, CCDS

Documentation and coding myocardial infarction (MI) is a common pain point for CDI departments, caused...Read More »

According to the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (...Read More »

We had a patient with Type 2 diabetes who was admitted for hypoglycemia with metabolic encephalopathy. The patient also had stage 2 chronic kidney...Read More »

by Adriane Martin, DO, FACOS, CCDS

“The clinical definition of myocardial infarction denotes the presence of acute myocardial...Read More »

Each character in the ICD-10-PCS code represents a specific element. The anatomy of the code is the following:

• First character:
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