POA and Discharge Disposition Coding
New Ways to Address Old Challenges For many years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has required the assignment of Present on Admission… Read More »POA and Discharge Disposition Coding
White Papers
Achieving a Strong Bottom Line: Healthcare Leaders Need to Put coding Quality First
Coding Elevated White Paper – September 2017 In September 2016, a national coding contest was conducted to measure real world ICD-10-Cm and ICD-10-PCS coding accuracy… Read More »Achieving a Strong Bottom Line: Healthcare Leaders Need to Put coding Quality First
ICD-10 Code Quality: Making the Case for Clinical Validation
Coding Elevated, White Paper – November 2016 Coding Quality in the Crosshairs. Reports of ICD-10 coding quality range from extremely low to on par with… Read More »ICD-10 Code Quality: Making the Case for Clinical Validation
Sepsis: Mitigating DenialsAmid Definition Disparity
Coding Elevated: White Paper 2017The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) met in 2016 to update the definition of sepsis. During this Summit, it was… Read More »Sepsis: Mitigating DenialsAmid Definition Disparity