This ACDIS white paper is presented by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, and discusses the 2017 ICD-10-CM coding guideline recommendations, and important changes that inpatient coders and CDI teams need to note.
Documentation and coding of severe sepsis matters in terms of patient risk assessment and establishing sepsis as a diagnosis, as well as the effect of such documentation (and subsequent code assignment) on quality measures.
Clinical documentation, Hospital inpatient, Hospital outpatient, Physician practice, Training
The following is an excerpt from JustCoding’s Guide to the 2017 ICD-10-CM Updates covering new diagnosis codes for reporting cognitive sequelae of cerebrovascular diseases and aneurysm and dissection of precerebral and vertebral arteries.
