One of the most frequent causes of hospital-acquired AKI is acute tubular necrosis (ATN). Improving documentation and coding practices for ATN involves not only recognizing the condition but also realizing the impact of coding ATN versus AKI, addressing common misconceptions in the HIM field, and fostering collaboration among CDI specialists, coding professionals, and providers.
With 50 new ICD-10-PCS codes implemented on April 1, Shelley C. Safian, PhD, RHIA, CCS-P, COC, CPC-I , thoroughly reviews the codes to help inpatient coders accurately apply the updates.
Reducing hospital readmissions has long been a health policy goal, and CDI programs have started to track and review this metric for improvement. Learn how CDI teams are addressing readmissions, as a familiarity with risk adjustment and the impact of documentation can prove useful to coders who also play a role in risk adjustment through their translations of complete documentation into precise codes.
Our experts answer questions on overcoming documentation challenges for sepsis, ICD-10-CM coding for infections of devices vs. wound infections as well as class three obesity and/or morbid obesity, and querying physician abbreviations.
