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Has your CDI program shifted its focus for optimal PSI 15 performance?

Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS, discusses a refined version of the Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 90 composite by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and how it has a significant impact on what discharges are included in PSI 15.

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A new sepsis definition: Finding coding compliance at a crossroads
Providers are still working to understand the impact of the February release of the controversial third international consensus definitions for sepsis and septic shock. James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, tackles this new sepsis definition in part two of his two-part series. 
Putting the specific into unspecified
Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, writes about how using unspecified diagnoses in the inpatient world results in deflated quality metrics. Remer helps clinical documentation specialists remedy the situation and gives advices on how to aid providers in documenting to the level of specificity that is now needed.
Healthcare News: Survey: More than half of reviewed claims did not have an overpayment
According to the recent RACTrac survey released from the American Hospital Association, 60% of claims reviewed by Recovery Auditors in the second quarter of 2016 were found to not have an overpayment.
Q&A: Querying for acute respiratory failure
Q: If a patient is extubated post-operatively, but continues to be treated with supplemental oxygen, when is a query for acute respiratory failure appropriate?
 

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