Quality & Regulatory

By Melissa Varnavas
Ask my mother. Ask my father. Ask my husband. Heck, you can even ask my nieces and nephews. For that matter, go...Read More »

“We felt that if we had our own internal dedicated team, we could watch [CDI efforts] much more closely,” said Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, system...Read More »

by Teresa Krepps, RHIT, CCS, CCDS

The ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee met on September 10–11, 2019 to...Read More »

by Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, COBGC

The fiscal year (FY) 2020 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and...Read More »

by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS

The concept of “conflicting documentation” is a frustrating and never-ending...Read More »

By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC

It’s fall—a season for football and pumpkin lattes. That means it’s also...Read More »

Kelly Ellis, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, is the director of coding, CDI, and compliance at the Ohio State University Healthcare. She has been in the...Read More »

Abstract
Provision of nutrition care is vital to the health and well-being of any patient who enters the health care system...Read More »

For many years now, healthcare reimbursement has been based not only on whether care was provided but on how well that care was provided and the...Read More »

According to this year’s CDI Week Industry Survey, only 10.38% of respondents (most of whom work in inpatient settings) don’t review for quality...Read More »