The 2014 CDI Pocket Guide

The 2014 CDI Pocket Guide helps you take clinical findings and dig deeper, and look for additional details such as medications and other conditions to develop the most accurate picture of the patient's condition. Authors Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS and Cynthia L. Tang, RHIA, CCS, draw on more than fifty years' cumulative experience and provide the clinical coding authority to strengthen patient care quality and resource utilization, and improve compliance and reimbursement. The new 2014 edition includes critical new updates from the 2014 IPPS Final Rule, and additional ICD-10 documentation tips to ensure you are ready for the national Oct. 1, 2014 compliance deadline. Also new in this edition: New criteria for recognizing Acute Respiratory Failure Documentation strategies to address ICD-10 challenges New Key References with clinical indicators to support queries for HIV/AIDS, pericarditis, acute myocardial infarction APR-DRG overview and its impact on severity and mortality Strategies to effectively identify and capture diagnoses that impact APR-DRGs Severity levels for the key MCCs and CCs and a listing of other important diagnoses that impact APR-DRGs Updates to the Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) list with new section on Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) Tips to improve Pay for Performance and Value-Based Purchasing metrics What's inside: A portable, tabbed, and easy reference to keep DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips The latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you don t report inaccurate codes Newly formatted and expanded DRG Tips section that includes DRGs with clinical and treatment indicators for alternate and optimal DRG assignment Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician 2014 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator