Clinical & Coding

News: Vascular events, infections, cancers responsible for most diagnostic error harm

August 1, 2019

CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 32

Misdiagnoses in treatments for “big three” conditions—cardiovascular events, cancers, and infections—comprise 74% of all serious harms from...Read More »

Q&A: Educating providers on root operations

August 1, 2019

CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 32

Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Education

Q: I’ve heard that provider education should not include lectures on the...Read More »

ACDIS Mailbag: Listener questions

July 31, 2019

Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

With special guest Dawn R. Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, the CDI manager of education at Ardent Health Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN,...

Q&A: Sepsis criteria conundrum

July 30, 2019

CDI Blog - Volume 12, Issue 106

Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Denials & Appeals

Q: Which sepsis criteria should we use? It seems like we get denials quoting every criteria set and...Read More »

Summer reading: Malnutrition documentation

July 26, 2019

CDI Blog - Volume 12, Issue 104

ACDIS Update, Clinical & Coding

By Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS

In April 2012, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Society for...Read More »

News: New York’s sepsis protocols lower death rates, according to JAMA study

July 25, 2019

CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 31

Clinical & Coding, News

New York’s statewide sepsis protocols appear to be working, according to a new study in...Read More »

News: ED spending among the commercially insured on the rise due to price, high-severity coding, study finds

July 25, 2019

CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 31

Clinical & Coding, News

While the average price for the five ED CPT codes were higher in 2016 than in 2009, the average price for higher severity codes rose at a faster...Read More »