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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

CE Articles

Creating an inpatient coding compliance plan
Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS, helps coding managers create a robust, effective internal coding compliance policy, plan, and implemented program.
Implementing thorough documentation, queries to drive clinical validity
Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, explains what clinical validation denials are, how they are determined, and how a coder can help to limit these rebuffs.
Using coding, CDI to transform hospitals’ revenue integrity
Amber Sterling, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Jana Armstrong, RHIA, CPC, discuss revenue integrity and how it focuses on three operational pillars: clinical coding, clinical documentation improvement, and physician education.
Healthcare News: Deadlines extended for inpatient data submissions
CMS pushed the February 15 submission deadlines for select inpatient clinical and healthcare-associated infection measure data, citing system glitches and inaccessibility to QualityNet reports.
Q&A: Sequencing DKA and cholelithiasis
Q: If a patient is admitted to the hospital with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and cholelithiasis, and is treated for both, would you code the cholelithiasis as the principal diagnosis because the patient had his or her gallbladder removed?
 

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