Ask ACDIS: Denials related to disorders of the brain and sepsis

March 1, 2017
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Quality & Regulatory

Q: According to a denial letter, acute metabolic encephalopathy secondary to any disease (which it obviously always is) codes to G94, other...Read More »

Q&A: Coding acute hypoxic and acute hypercapnic respiratory failure

February 23, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 9
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries

Q: When the physician documents that the patient is acute hypoxic and acute hypercapnic, should we code both of these diagnoses?...Read More »

Conference Q&A: DeVault illuminates the shift to outpatient CDI

February 23, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 20
Ask ACDIS, CDI Expansion, Outpatient CDI

Editor’s Note: Over the coming weeks, we’ll introduce a few of this year’s speakers who are heading to the podium...Read More »

Q&A: Coding highest level of specificity for kidney disease

February 16, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 8
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: A patient presented to the hospital for a coronary artery bypass graph (CABG) and stage 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD)....Read More »

Q&A: Documenting present on admission status for wounds

February 9, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 7
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Policies & Procedures, Quality & Regulatory

Q: If I document a wound at Stage 3 with no CC or MCC, do I also need to assign a present on admission (POA) status?
...Read More »

Conference Q&A: Ericson sheds light on alternative payment models

February 9, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 15
Ask ACDIS, Quality & Regulatory

Editor’s note: Over the coming weeks leading up to the conference, we’ll take some time to introduce members to a...Read More »

Q&A: Making changes to a principal diagnosis without a query

February 2, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 5
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries, Quality & Regulatory

Q: Can coders change the principal diagnosis assignment without querying the physician?

A: Once the...Read More »

Conference Q&A: Hirsch offers insight into CDI utilization review contributions

February 2, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 11
Ask ACDIS, Quality & Regulatory

Editor’s Note: Over the comings weeks, we’ll take some time to introduce members to a few of this year’s ACDIS...Read More »

Q&A: Unavoidable complications

January 26, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 4
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, CDI Management, Clinical & Coding

Q: If a complication was unavoidable, and has been documented as such, is that good enough reason to not code it? We wouldn’t...Read More »

CDI’s role in clarifying malnutrition

January 24, 2017
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, News

With special guest Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for HCPro and the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS). 

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