CDI

Guest post: Most common COVID-19 respiratory manifestations

By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces from disparate systems and people. Many patients coming in with COVID-19 related pneumonia are demonstrating…

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Guest post: Most common COVID-19 respiratory manifestations

By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces from disparate systems and people. Many patients coming in with COVID-19 related pneumonia are demonstrating…

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Dolbey Launches Educational Webinar Series Offering AHIMA Approved CEUs

CONCORD, Ohio, July 9, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Dolbey is a leading provider of medical coding and billing software that drives greater accuracy and high productivity in medical coding by using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. KLAS Research has awarded Dolbey the Category Leader designation for Computer-Assisted Coding for four straight years. Prior to COVID-19, the…

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Guest post: Sepsis 2.5

By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Sepsis-3 is celebrating its fourth birthday this year, and while it can be hard to judge the success or failure of a child until it’s forty, one can at least take an early look to make sure the kid isn’t tearing wings off flies. So,…

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CMS releases FY 2021 ICD-10-PCS code set and official guidelines

By Revenue Cycle Advisor CMS recently released the fiscal year (FY) 2021 ICD-10-PCS code set, which includes 544 new codes for Fragmentations of the veins and arteries, Drainages of the pelvic cavity, and Imaging of various organs. It also released the FY 2021 ICD-10-PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. The new ICD-10-PCS code set take effect…

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Guest post: Coding and documentation challenges related to syncope

By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog Codes for symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions from Chapter 18 of the ICD-10-CM coding manual cannot be used as principal diagnosis or reasons for outpatient encounters when related diagnosis has been established, they may be assigned as an additional diagnosis. Examples…

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ICD-10 Codes for Spring

From AdvancedMD If the long gray days of winter have you hankering for sunny skies and warmer temps, we have good news: The Vernal Equinox is only days away! This year the Vernal Equinox, also called the “Spring Equinox”, falls on March 20 and marks the official beginning of Spring. The change of seasons has…

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