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e4health Team Member Spotlight: Tasha Foy
Biweekly, we shine a spotlight on a member of the e4health Team who is truly making an impact. Today, we're putting Tasha Foy in the Team Spotlight!Let's Hear From Tasha ... What’s your secret sauce? How do you make it look so easy? I think my secret sauce is just...
Navigating Challenges Together From the Change Healthcare Cyberattack
Please see this important message from our e4health CEO Matthew Zubiller about how e4health is responding to the recent Change Healthcare cyberattack. In light of the recent Change Healthcare cyberattack, we recognize the extraordinary challenges many are facing. We...
Coding Tips: New Codes for Sickle Cell Disease with Dactylitis
New Codes for Sickle Cell Disease with Dactylitis (Valid for October 1, 2023 discharges)• D57.04 Hb-SS disease with dactylitis• D57.214 Sickle-cell/Hb-C disease with dactylitis• D57.414 Sickle-cell thalassemia, unspecified, with dactylitis• D57.434 Sickle-cell...
e4health Team Member Spotlight: David Steinhage
David was nominated multiple times for our WEGROW awards. Here's what his Teammates had to say: Nominated For Our People Make The Difference "David is a fount of coding knowledge, dare I say a savant, and he is willing to share what he knows to help out teammates. His...
Master Patient Index (MPI) Cleanup – The Solution to Duplicate Medical Records
Accurately manage and clean up duplicate medical records with eMPI Cleanup to avoid errors, misdiagnoses, or even data security breaches. Maintaining high data integrity ensures safe and effective care.
Coding Tips: Complication Comorbidity Update
Complication Comorbidity UpdateSocial Determinants of Health (SDOH) codes Z59.00, Homelessness unspecified, Z59.01, Sheltered homelessness and Z59.02, Unsheltered homelessness will be considered CC’s (complication/comorbidity) beginning with October 1, 2023...
CDI Tips: Pathological Fractures
Pathological FracturesDefinition: A bone fracture that occurs without adequate trauma, caused by an underlying disease.Diagnostic CriteriaIdentified in Radiology/Diagnostic Imaging such as X-Ray, CT, MRI, or bone scans. There are various underlying causes for...
Coding Tips: New Code for Resistant Hypertension
New Code for Resistant Hypertension (Valid for October 1, 2023 discharges)I1A.0 Resistant hypertension May be documented as: Apparent treatment resistant hypertension, Treatment resistant hypertension, True resistant hypertension. The ICD-10-CM Tabular instruction...
CDI Tips: Hypertensive Crisis
Hypertensive CrisisDefinition: HTN: Systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 130mm Hg or more and/or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of more than 80mm Hg HTN Crisis: Generic term to describe hypertensive urgency or hypertensive emergency, typically seen with elevated blood...
CDI Case Study: e4health CDI Solutions Yield Significant Financial and Quality Improvements
When a 125-bed acute care medical center located in the heart of Eastern Long Island, New York, needed assistance taking their Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Department to the next level, they turned to e4health.
e4health Supports 75 Children Through Their Second Annual Holiday Drive
Making A DifferenceFor this year's annual e4health Holiday Drive, e4health partnered with the Foster Families Assistance Network to provide gifts for children in need. Last year's successful initiative to buy gifts for 50 children through the Salvation Army started a...
Decoding V28 Transition: Key Takeaways from Journal of AHIMA
Medicare Advantage is on the brink of a significant restructuring as it transitions from V24 to V28 of the hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) risk adjustment model. In a recent Journal of AHIMA article, I partnered with Jeanie Heck, BBA, CCS, Education...