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Acute on Chronic Respiratory Failure

Case: A 67 year old female with severe COPD and chronic respiratory failure on home oxygen at 2 L/min (28%) […]

Morbid and Severe Obesity: How are these defined?

Historically, a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 40 has been defined as “morbid” or “extreme” obesity. The World Health Organization […]

The Solution to Severe Malnutrition Denials: Document the Treatment!

The CMS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report in July 2020 claiming that hospitals over-billed Medicare approximately $1 […]

Big Change for Glasgow Coma Scale Codes for FY2021

In probably the most important change to the FY2021 ICD-10-CM guidelines, the reporting of Glasgow Coma Scale codes has been […]

Heart Failure Update: Clarifying New Terminology

By now all of us should be familiar with the terminology and coding for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction […]

Pancytopenia: Neutrophils vs. White Blood Cells

Pancytopenia is a simultaneous deficiency of three blood cell lineages: red blood cells, platelets, and neutrophils. Its clinical significance is […]

Who Owns Sepsis?

A recent “Opinion” article by three distinguished professors from Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis titled “Who Owns Sepsis?” […]

Multi-drug Resistance

For the 2020 ICD-10-CM, new codes were created to capture antibiotic resistance in clinical settings. The intent is to identify […]

Everything you need to know about P/F Ratio and how to calculate PaO2/FIO2

What is the P/F Ratio? The P/F ratio is a powerful objective tool to identify acute hypoxemic respiratory failure when […]

Sample Physician Query Templates

These sample physician query documents are offered solely as examples of standardized physician queries to clarify clinical documentation within the […]

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