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April 3, 2018

Which of these best represents your institution's issue with elevated troponins?

March 13, 2018

What is the most difficult issue for your system/institution when it comes to respiratory failure?

January 30, 2018

How would you code a patient with ESRD who is 22 weeks pregnant?

October 31, 2017

Has your hospital or system ever gotten in trouble for noncompliant queries?

September 19, 2017

Which of these educational topics do you feel would benefit you the most?

September 12, 2017

We are exploring which sepsis criteria your facility/institution uses.

August 29, 2017

Almost 2 years after the implementation of ICD-10, how is the ICD-10 productivity at your organization compared to ICD-9-CM (pre-ICD-10)?

August 22, 2017

Does your institution have a policy for turnaround time for a CDI query response?

August 15, 2017

What is your goal for turnaround time for a CDI query response?

July 11, 2017

Does your institution/facility use scribes?

June 6, 2017

How do you learn about the AHA quarterly Coding Clinics?

May 9, 2017

Under payment reforms, do you anticipate denials will increase even more due to the following:

April 25, 2017

The majority of our medical necessity denials stem from the following:

March 14, 2017

Do you know the procedure to petition for new codes or suggest revisions to existing ICD-10-CM codes?

March 7, 2017

Approximately what percentage of time is a veteran CDIS in your organization permitted to work remotely?

February 28, 2017

At our hospital we have:

February 21, 2017

What poses the biggest challenge in your facility/institution/system in getting surgeons to document malnutrition?

February 7, 2017

What have you been experiencing related to your Case Mix since the implementation of ICD-10?

January 24, 2017

Are you experiencing payers denying septic shock claims?

January 17, 2017

Which statement below best describes the relationship you have from a communication perspective with your payers when it comes to settling clinical based claim disputes?

January 10, 2017

What is your overall ICD-10 coding accuracy?

December 13, 2016

Was the implementation of ICD-10 worth all of the blood sweat and tears that went into making it happen?

November 29, 2016

What have you been experiencing related to your Case Mix Index since the implementation of ICD-10?

November 8, 2016

Which statement below is causing the largest increase in your Physician queries since the implementation of ICD-10 (concurrent and/or retrospective)?

November 1, 2016

One year into ICD-10 which item below are you experiencing the most issues with?

October 25, 2016

Which statement below describes your status with CAC?

October 18, 2016

When you receive a clinical validation denial and review the medical record which statement below best describes your findings a majority of the time?

October 11, 2016

What is your overall ICD-10 coding accuracy rate one year in?

September 27, 2016

What percent of your claims are downgraded annually by third party payers?

August 30, 2016

Since the implementations of ICD-10 which statement below best reflects where your organization is now in relation to claim rejections?

August 23, 2016

Which statement below best describes how your Coding Professionals assign codes?

August 16, 2016

What do you think about the ICD-10 official guidelines that have been recently released?

August 9, 2016

What level of stress and burnout are you experiencing in your current work environment?

August 2, 2016

Are you performing some form of HCC coding in your organization?

July 19, 2016

What hospital outpatient services are you coding in ICD-10-PCS?

July 12, 2016

What is your overall ICD-10 coding accuracy nine months in?

May 24, 2016

Do you have a CDI Program or some similar functionality in the organization you work?

May 17, 2016

What have you been experiencing related to Case Mix Index since the implementation of ICD-10?

April 20, 2016

What percentage are you running below your normal coding productivity rate?

April 12, 2016

What is the most common type of ICD-10 coding difficulty you are finding in your organization with your coding staff?

April 5, 2016

If you're experiencing a DRG shift have you begun to implement an action plan to analyze the shift?