News: CDC releases FY 2021 ICD-10-CM code update

July 9, 2020
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 28
Clinical & Coding, News, Quality & Regulatory

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted the fiscal year (FY) 2021 ICD-10-CM...Read More »

Listener mailbag

July 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

With special guests Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., in Beachwood, Ohio, and a member of the ACDIS Advisory Board. Co-hosted by Dawn...

Guest column: Ischemic heart disease conundrums

July 1, 2020
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4
Clinical & Coding, Education

by Alba Kuqi, MD, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CICA, CSCM
Ischemic heart disease has a multifactorial etiology and can be prevented from...Read More »

Regulatory Committee Insight: Reviewing ICD-10-PCS Section X

July 1, 2020
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4
Clinical & Coding, Education

​by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O
There is a saying that “the only constant in life is change.” This can also be said about...Read More »

Coding Corner: Seven things coders wish physicians knew about acute blood loss anemia

July 1, 2020
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 4
Clinical & Coding, Education

​by Sarah Nehring, CCS, CCDS
Acute blood loss anemia, when coded as a secondary diagnosis, can increase expected reimbursement, the...Read More »

Q&A: Malnutrition documentation processes

June 25, 2020
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 26
Ask ACDIS, Denials & Appeals, Clinical & Coding

​Q: Our dietitians send cases needing a query for malnutrition to our CDI staff. Previously, they were notifying providers of the...Read More »

News: COVID-19 patients with underlying conditions 12 times as likely to die

June 25, 2020
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 26
Clinical & Coding, News

​According to the ...Read More »

COVID-19: Queries and front-line workflow

June 24, 2020
Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries

With special guests Jennifer Cavagnac, CCDS, the assistant director of CDI at Baystate Health System in Springfield, Massachusetts, Nageshwar Jonnalagadda, MD, MPH, FACP,...

Q&A: Queries for flash pulmonary edema

June 18, 2020
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 25
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Under what circumstances and when is it appropriate to code flash (acute) pulmonary edema and acute-on-chronic heart failure (diastolic or...Read More »

News: Providers push to extend telehealth policies and waivers beyond COVID-19

June 18, 2020
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 25
Clinical & Coding, News

The American College of Physicians (ACP) recently wrote...Read More »

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