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Physicians often use the term renal insufficiency to communicate the status of a patient’s renal function, but this isn't enough when the medical record supports a more specific condition.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/coding.htm
15 Mar 2009
Documenting adverse drug reactions and poisonings
Adverse effects of a correctly administered drug or drugs must be coded and reported differently than the misuse of a drug, which is classified as “poisoning” in ICD-9-CM coding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/coding.htm
15 Jan 2010
Is it sepsis?
John Doe was brought to the emergency department by ambulance from a local nursing home.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/coding.htm
15 Feb 2009
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Table 2. Components of physician participation in clinical documentationimprovement programsAwareness. Participate in clinical documentation improvement(CDI) educational activities. ... Understand impact and objectives of CDI. Ask questions and contact clinical documentation specialist (CDS) if needed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/acph-201411-coding_t2.pdf
17 Nov 2014
Connecting the causes and codes for pneumonia
The rules that govern code assignment for pneumonia bear little relationship to long-accepted clinical documentation practices.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/08/coding-pneumonia-causes.htm
15 Aug 2016
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CODING CORNER. Table 3. Tasks of physician advisors inclinical documentation improvement programs Review records referred by the clinical documentation. ... improvement (CDI) team in a timely manner. Resolve clinical documentation specialist/coder mismatches of diagnosis-related groups.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/acph-201411-coding_t3.pdf
17 Nov 2014
ICD-10-CM specificity: The sky isn't falling
ICD-10-CM allows much greater specificity of diagnosis codes, it will require little more from physicians than ICD-9
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/ICD-10-CM-specificity.htm
15 Jul 2015
Acute exacerbation of COPD
Diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of acute exacerbation of COPD in a 67-year-old man.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/morning-report-COPD.htm
15 Apr 2016
Syncope, latent TB, and perioperative aspirin
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/recent-research.htm
15 May 2018
6 ACP Hospitalist • August 2018 coding corner Documentation ...
Pinson, MD, FACP. The currently preferred clinical terminology of “chronic kidney disease” or CKD should be used in diagnostic documentation. ... A significant conflict exists between the clinical documentation standards and ICD-10-CM coding practices for a patient who has had a kidney transplant.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/acph-201808-coding-corner-chronic-kidney-disease-including-transplants_t2.pdf
31 Jul 2018