


Today’s Tip: Acute Respiratory Acidosis
New codes related to respiratory acidosis are now in place. Acute respiratory acidosis is now indexed to J96.02 (Acute respiratory failure with hypercapnia). Chronic respiratory acidosis is now indexed to J96.12 (Chronic respiratory failure with hypercapnia)....
Gold Star Ranking at RWJBarnabas Encompasses MPI and Data Integrity Work with Intellis
In October 2022, Intellis’ New Jersey-based client RWJBarnabas received an unprecedented perfect score from Epic for its EHR implementation project, as Becker’s Hospital Review reported. The Gold Star 10 ranking, the highest level of recognition a health system can...
Hepatic Encephalopathy
Code K76.82 We now have a code (K76.82) for Hepatic Encephalopathy for FY 2023. This includes documentation such as: “Hepatocerebral intoxication” and “Portal-systemic encephalopathy.” It is important to note in the ICD-10-CM manual that we...