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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare facility CDI program analysis | 8.33% | - Severity of illness and risk of mortality - Physician performance measurement - Basic computer and software application skills - CC/MCC capture - Hospital Value-Based Purchasing measures - PEPPER data - Hospital-specific financial data - Provider response rates - CDI specialist productivity metrics - High-frequency DRGs - Tracking and trending physician, department, and hospital performance - CDI program forecasting - Case mix index (CMI) - Publicly reported data - Patient Safety Indicators |
| Anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and medical terminology | 19.17% | - Infectious and parasitic diseases - Standard medical abbreviations - Clinical indicators and query opportunities by Major Diagnostic Category - Diagnostic tests as clinical indicators - Injuries, poisonings, and toxic effects of drugs - Pharmaceuticals and disease processes - Diseases and disorders of the nervous system - Diseases and disorders of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and breast - Diseases and disorders of the digestive system - Mental diseases and disorders - Diseases and disorders of the circulatory system - HIV infections - Medications as clinical indicators - Myeloproliferative diseases and disorders and poorly differentiated neoplasms - Diseases and disorders of the respiratory system - Diseases and disorders of the hepatobiliary system - Diseases and disorders of the kidney and urinary tract - Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases and disorders - Alcohol/drug use and alcohol/drug-induced organic brain disorders - Diseases and disorders of the musculoskeletal system - Diseases and disorders of the blood and blood-forming organs and immunological disorders |
| Communication skills | 9.17% | - Roles and responsibilities of CDI specialists - Roles and responsibilities of coders working with CDI departments - Effective and non-confrontational physician communication - Reconciling CDI working DRGs with final coded DRGs - Physician education forms and tools - Verbal versus written physician communication - Educational presentations for healthcare departments and administration |
| Medical record documentation | 19.17% | - ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice - Provider role and diagnosis code assignment - Addressing diagnoses without clinical support - Documentation requiring clarification - Situations in which queries are not appropriate - Translating clinical indicators into compliant queries - Physician query formats - Types of physician queries - Health record elements used for diagnosis and procedure code assignment - Clinical indicators - When a physician query is warranted - Compliant and noncompliant queries |
| Professionalism, ethics, and compliance | 9.17% | - CDI department goals beyond reimbursement - Medical record confidentiality - Leading queries - DRG compliance initiatives - Compliance risks indicated by PEPPER - Potential DRG creep |
| Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting | 14.17% | - Hospital-acquired conditions - Coding guidelines for principal diagnosis selection - Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting updates - Principal diagnosis assignment - Discharge dispositions and transfers - Present on admission indicators - AHA Coding Clinic - Secondary diagnosis assignment - Working DRG assignment for multiple diagnoses |
| Impact of reportable diagnoses on quality of care | 8.33% | - Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program - Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program - Quality data from record abstraction and claims data - Healthcare-associated infections and complication codes - Coded data elements affecting Patient Safety Indicators - Hospital Value-Based Purchasing - 30-day mortality measures - Documentation and code assignment impact on mortality index - Mortality reviews and observed/expected ratios - CDI impact on Hospital Value-Based Purchasing - Patient Safety Indicators |
| Healthcare regulations, reimbursement, and documentation requirements related to the IPPS | 12.5% | - Inpatient admission criteria and CMS Two-Midnight Rule - Documentation impact on IPPS reimbursement - IPPS and its updates and revisions - Complication/comorbidity (CC) - Major complication/comorbidity (MCC) - Documentation and medical necessity of setting - Coding and billing practices vulnerable to denial - Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs) - Medical staff and clinical staff documentation responsibilities - Case mix index (CMI) - Medicare contractors and their impact on CDI - Principal diagnosis and medical necessity |
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NEW QUESTION # 42
A registered dietitian documents severe malnutrition based on substantial weight loss, severe muscle depletion, and prolonged inadequate energy intake. The attending physician documents only "poor oral intake." What is the BEST action for the CDI specialist?
Answer: A
Explanation:
The appropriate action is to query the provider regarding the patient's nutritional diagnosis. The dietitian's assessment supplies important clinical evidence, but the associated diagnosis of malnutrition generally must be documented by an appropriate provider before the diagnosis code is assigned.
The FY 2026 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines permit selected elements to come from non-provider clinicians-such as BMI, pressure-ulcer stage, coma scale, NIH Stroke Scale, certain social determinants, and other specifically identified exceptions. Malnutrition diagnosis itself is not simply assigned solely from a dietitian's diagnostic statement under this general rule.
Ignoring the dietitian's findings would also be inappropriate. CDI review should integrate multidisciplinary documentation because such documentation can reveal valid clarification opportunities. Severe weight loss, reduced intake, and documented muscle depletion provide a clinical basis for a neutral query.
The query should not state that severe malnutrition "must" be documented because it is an MCC. Instead, it should present the relevant nutrition findings and allow the provider to determine the diagnosis, including severe malnutrition, another level of malnutrition, another cause, or inability to determine.
CCDS Reference Topics: Malnutrition; multidisciplinary documentation; provider diagnosis requirements; clinical indicators.
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NEW QUESTION # 43
A patient undergoes abdominal surgery. Two days later, the physician documents "postoperative anemia." The hemoglobin decreased from 12.4 g/dL preoperatively to 8.2 g/dL, but the record does not state whether the anemia represents an expected postoperative condition, acute blood loss anemia, or a complication of surgery. What should the CDI specialist do?
Answer: C
Explanation:
The appropriate action is to query for clarification. A temporal relationship-anemia occurring after surgery- does not automatically establish that a reportable complication occurred. Likewise, a CDI specialist cannot independently translate a substantial hemoglobin decline into acute posthemorrhagic anemia without provider documentation.
The FY 2026 Official Guidelines state that complication-of-care code assignment depends on provider documentation establishing the relationship between the condition and the care or procedure unless the classification specifically instructs otherwise. They also emphasize that not every condition occurring during or following medical care is a complication.
The query could present the preoperative and postoperative hemoglobin values, estimated blood loss, transfusions, clinical monitoring, and treatment. Appropriate response options might include acute blood loss anemia, expected postoperative anemia, another diagnosis, or clinically unable to determine, depending on the record.
Option A overstates causation. Option B independently diagnoses the patient from laboratory findings. Option D is equally inappropriate because clinically significant postoperative anemia may be reportable.
CCDS Reference Topics: Complications of care; postoperative anemia; clinical indicators; cause-and-effect clarification; compliant querying.
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NEW QUESTION # 44
A wound care nurse documents an assessment and care of a pressure ulcer. For coding purposes, the wound care nurse's documentation can be used to assign which of the following?
Answer: D
Explanation:
The wound care nurse's documentation may be used to establish the stage of a pressure ulcer, making option D correct. ICD-10-CM provides specific exceptions to the general rule that diagnosis code assignment is based on documentation by a provider legally accountable for establishing diagnoses. Pressure-ulcer staging is one of the clinical details that may be derived from documentation by qualified non-provider clinicians involved in the patient's care.
Wound care nurses possess specialized expertise in pressure-injury assessment and commonly document staging based on tissue involvement. Current ICD-10-CM guidance directs assignment of the pressure-ulcer stage according to clinical documentation and provides specific rules for unstageable ulcers, healing ulcers, and ulcers that progress during hospitalization.
This exception does not mean that a wound-care nurse independently establishes every element of the medical diagnosis for coding purposes. The provider documentation remains central to identifying the pressure-ulcer diagnosis and relevant clinical condition, while the stage may come from qualified clinician documentation.
POA assignment follows separate reporting rules and is based on whether the condition was present at the time inpatient admission occurred.
CCDS Reference Topics: Pressure ulcers; non-provider documentation; staging; coding conventions.
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NEW QUESTION # 45
A CDI team identifies that orthopedic surgeons frequently document "postoperative anemia" without specifying whether blood loss is acute, expected, chronic, or clinically insignificant. What is the BEST educational strategy?
Answer: D
Explanation:
The strongest educational approach is targeted specialty-specific education using the surgeons' own documentation trends and realistic clinical examples. This addresses the recurring documentation problem while remaining clinically relevant to the audience.
Orthopedic surgeons do not need to become coding specialists. Education should instead explain which clinical distinctions matter-for example, whether anemia represents expected postoperative change, acute blood loss anemia, chronic anemia, or another diagnosis-and why accurate terminology improves the medical record.
Providing a long code list is unlikely to improve physician documentation behavior. Instructing surgeons to document acute blood loss anemia whenever hemoglobin decreases would be clinically inappropriate and could produce unsupported diagnoses. A postoperative hemoglobin decline may reflect hemodilution, expected surgical blood loss, chronic anemia, or other factors.
Stopping queries would leave meaningful ambiguities unresolved.
ACDIS/AHIMA query guidance emphasizes documentation accuracy and provider independence rather than reimbursement-focused diagnosis selection.
Successful physician education should be concise, clinically oriented, supported by service-line data, and reinforced when subsequent query trends demonstrate persistent problems.
CCDS Reference Topics: Physician education; communication; postoperative anemia; query trends; provider engagement.
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NEW QUESTION # 46
A CDI program is developing a query escalation policy. A clinically significant query remains unanswered despite normal reminders. Which action is MOST appropriate?
Answer: B
Explanation:
An unanswered clinically significant query should be managed through the organization's defined escalation process. The process may involve CDI leadership, coding leadership, a physician advisor, department leadership, or other designated personnel, depending on organizational policy.
Neither CDI nor coding may independently supply the missing diagnosis because diagnostic conclusions remain the provider's responsibility. Removing an unresolved query simply to accelerate billing can undermine documentation integrity and may create compliance problems.
Escalation policies should be standardized rather than applied only when a particular diagnosis affects reimbursement. Policies commonly address expected response time, reminder intervals, responsible escalation personnel, high-priority queries, retrospective queries, and final-bill procedures.
The 2026 ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice supersede prior versions and serve as the current foundational guidance for organizations establishing compliant query policies and procedures.
A mature escalation process balances timely claim completion with respect for provider workload and independent clinical judgment. Its purpose is obtaining complete and accurate documentation, not forcing agreement with a CDI-generated diagnosis.
CCDS Reference Topics: Query escalation; organizational policy; unanswered queries; compliance; provider responsibility.
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