Posts Tagged ‘sepsis documentation’
The Great Sepsis War rages on; will we see a truce, or a winner?
By Brian Murphy The Great Sepsis War rages on. The infection itself, which kills hundreds of thousands every year, but also in the hallowed halls of coding classification. Where in the A41.9 will we end up with this deadly but controversial infection? (aside: sepsis isn’t funny, but the rage elicited over conflicting definitions and…
Read MoreSevere Sepsis/Septic Shock Early Management Bundle part of HVBP on Jan. 1: Are you ready?
By Brian Murphy Hospitals are about to have (additional) reasons to get sepsis documentation and coding right. As if they didn’t already. Hospitals have been implementing and documenting the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Early Management Bundle, aka., SEP-1 for years through the Inpatient Quality Program. There were already incentives to document it, including payment. But CMS…
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