Clinical & Coding

Population health is exactly what it sounds like: the health of a given community or population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...Read More »

Is there ever a circumstance where atrial fibrillation can be used as a CC or MCC?Read More »

A recent coding productivity survey conducted by ACDIS’ parent company, HCPro, had some positive findings:

• Under ICD-9, the average
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its clinical guidance for diagnosing and treating electronic cigarette- or vaping-...Read More »

By Carolyn Riel

Thanksgiving was last week, and the ACDIS team took a nice little break. We hope you all did, too. The holidays...Read More »

As of October 1, 2019, 1080 cases of respiratory illnesses and 18 deaths brought on by vaping have been reported in the U.S., according to the ...Read More »

To celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday next week, the ACDIS offices will be closed starting on Thursday, November 28, and will reopen on Monday,...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 »

If the primary diagnosis is cerebral vascular accident (CVA), can we have a secondary diagnosis of hemiplegia to add a CC? Or is this considered...Read More »