CDI can serve as a valuable partner to quality and coding colleagues in understanding the technical details of patient safety indicators, which have a tangible impact on reputation, quality metrics, and financial outcomes.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing medical coding workflows. AI-assisted technology can help coding professionals work more efficiently. But there is an important distinction between identifying a possible code and determining whether that code should actually be reported.
The fiscal year 2027 update to the ICD-10-CM code set includes new, deleted, and revised codes, as well as hundreds of changes to “Excludes” notes and “Code Also” indications. This code set was produced to show greater coding specificity by publishing codes with greater clinical specificity.
