The 2015 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 2015 edition of our popular CDI best-seller includes critical new updates from the 2015 IPPS Final Rule, and additional ICD-10 documentation tips to ensure you are ready for the national Oct. 1, 2015 compliance deadline. New to this year is additional information on Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) and how CDI specialists can incorporate VBP initiatives into their health record reviews. 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 - Strategically placed ICD-10 Tips to start getting additional specificity now, in advance of the Oct. 1, 2015 compliance deadline - Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician - 2015 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator
