Clinical & Coding

By Kelly Harney, RN, BSN, MA, CCDS

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is now...Read More »

Q: I’ve been told that acute respiratory failure always has an underlying etiology, would that...Read More »

Following their April 4 meeting, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human...Read More »

By Joan Oliver, MHA, BSN, RN, ACM, CCDS

CDI professionals, along with HIM professionals, have important responsibilities to assign...Read More »

By Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, and Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS

Without a team that is fully engaged, it is...Read More »

The AMA and UnitedHealthcare announced a...Read More »

A sepsis surveillance and treatment initiative at Frederick Memorial Hospital has slashed the facility’s mortality rate for the deadly infection...Read More »

Q: We recently had a patient who was on oral Bactrim after a fracture who may have been non-...Read More »

Q: If both ETOH withdrawal and ETOH with intoxication were documented, should we code both F10.239...Read More »

By Rita Garcia, BAS, LVN, CCDS

The first time I read “airway protection” documented in the medical record, I realized it would...Read More »