CDI Pocket Guide 2013

The 2013 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 patients condition. Authors Dr. Richard Pinson and Cynthia Tang 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. Whats Inside * A portable and easy reference to keep DRGs and diagnoses at your finger tips * The latest coding guidelines and relative weights so you dont report inaccurate codes * Clinical indicators to help identify documentation opportunities and formulate an appropriate query to the physician * 2013 DRG table with relative weights, GMLOS, and transfer DRG indicator Also included in this edition is an ICD-10 overview and a preview of the ICD-10 changes in each of the individual sections.