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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Professionalism, ethics, and compliance | 9.17% | - Confidentiality, DRG compliance, and ethical CDI practices - Query compliance, DRG creep, and audit risks |
| Healthcare regulations, reimbursement, and documentation requirements related to the IPPS | 12.5% | - CC/MCC, CMI, Medicare contractors, and compliance - IPPS, MS-DRGs, reimbursement, and medical necessity |
| Medical record documentation | 19.17% | - Documentation clarification and compliant physician queries - Documentation requirements and diagnosis or procedure code assignment |
| Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting | 14.17% | - Principal and secondary diagnosis assignment - Coding guidelines, AHA Coding Clinic, HACs, and POA indicators |
| Impact of reportable diagnoses on quality of care | 8.33% | - Quality metrics, reporting programs, and financial impact - Mortality, severity of illness, and risk of mortality |
| Anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and medical terminology | 19.17% | - Clinical conditions and clinical indicators - Anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and terminology |
| Healthcare facility CDI program analysis | 8.33% | - CDI productivity, provider response, CMI, and program metrics - Data analysis, forecasting, and performance measurement |
| Communication skills | 9.17% | - Physician education and effective communication - CDI and coding roles and interdisciplinary collaboration |
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NEW QUESTION # 133
A patient underwent open small bowel resection with anastomosis for colon cancer. The physician notes,
"Post-op ileus, awaiting return of bowel function." Which of the following actions should a CDI specialist take FIRST?
Answer: B
Explanation:
The phrase "post-op ileus" establishes that the ileus occurred after surgery, but it does not necessarily establish that the ileus represents a reportable surgical complication rather than an expected transient consequence of abdominal surgery. The relationship and clinical significance therefore require clarification.
ICD-10-CM guidance on complications of care states that not every condition occurring during or following surgery is automatically classified as a complication. Code assignment depends on provider documentation establishing the relationship between the condition and the care or procedure, and the documentation must support clinical significance. When that relationship is unclear, the provider should be queried.
Assigning a complication code immediately would therefore be premature. Likewise, simply coding postoperative ileus without resolving whether it represents expected postoperative physiology or a clinically significant complication could misrepresent the episode.
Escalation to a physician advisor or CDI manager is unnecessary as the first action because this is a standard documentation-clarification issue that can be addressed directly through a compliant provider query.
CCDS Reference Topics: Official Guidelines-complications of care; medical record documentation; compliant provider clarification.
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NEW QUESTION # 134
For FY 2026 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing, each of the four scored domains generally contributes what percentage to the Total Performance Score when all four domains are scored?
Answer: A
Explanation:
When all four Hospital VBP domains are scored, each domain contributes 25% of the hospital's Total Performance Score.
For FY 2026, the four domains are Clinical Outcomes, Person and Community Engagement, Safety, and Efficiency and Cost Reduction. CMS's Provider Data Catalog confirms that each contributes one-quarter of the Total Performance Score under the standard four-domain configuration.
The Clinical Outcomes domain includes mortality and complication measures. Person and Community Engagement incorporates HCAHPS patient-experience dimensions. The Safety domain contains healthcare- associated infection and safety-related measures, while Efficiency and Cost Reduction incorporates Medicare spending measures.
If a hospital receives valid scores in only three domains, CMS proportionately reweights the scored domains rather than simply assigning zero to the missing domain.
For CCDS practice, understanding these domains helps explain why accurate documentation influences more than MS-DRG reimbursement. Clinical documentation can affect severity adjustment, complications analysis, mortality calculations, and the reliability of administrative data used in performance measurement.
CCDS Reference Topics: Hospital VBP; Total Performance Score; quality domains; risk adjustment; hospital performance.
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NEW QUESTION # 135
A patient with COPD normally has a PaCO# of approximately 45 mmHg. The patient is admitted with increasing somnolence and respiratory distress. Arterial blood gas results are pH 7.27, PaCO# 68 mmHg, and PaO# 58 mmHg. BiPAP is initiated. Which condition is MOST appropriate for the CDI specialist to consider as a clarification opportunity?
Answer: A
Explanation:
The findings strongly support a clarification opportunity for acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. The patient has a substantial acute rise in PaCO# above the documented baseline, respiratory acidemia with a pH of 7.27, hypoxemia, altered mental status, respiratory distress, and escalation to noninvasive ventilatory support.
In chronic CO# retention, renal compensation commonly increases serum bicarbonate and may allow a relatively preserved pH. A pronounced fall in pH in conjunction with a significant increase in PaCO# suggests an acute ventilatory deterioration. The need for BiPAP provides additional evidence of clinically significant respiratory compromise.
Option C is incorrect because the acidemia is driven primarily by elevated carbon dioxide, indicating respiratory rather than metabolic acidosis. Option A fails to capture the apparent acute deterioration from the patient's baseline. Option D is inconsistent with the physiologic abnormalities and treatment intensity.
The CDI specialist must still obtain provider documentation rather than independently diagnose respiratory failure. The CCDS examination specifically includes acute/chronic respiratory failure, COPD, ventilation support, and diagnostic-test interpretation among expected clinical competencies.
CCDS Reference Topics: Acute respiratory failure; hypercapnia; ABG interpretation; COPD; noninvasive ventilation.
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NEW QUESTION # 136
Which of the following diagnoses is classified as a major complication/comorbidity (MCC) under the FY
2026 MS-DRG system?
Answer: D
Explanation:
Severe protein-calorie malnutrition is the correct answer. This question is adapted from an official CCDS sample question published by ACDIS.
Under the FY 2026 MS-DRG Definitions Manual, E43, unspecified severe protein-calorie malnutrition, is classified as an MCC. In contrast, moderate and mild protein-calorie malnutrition codes are classified as CCs rather than MCCs.
An MCC can materially affect MS-DRG assignment when the applicable DRG family differentiates cases by MCC status and when no exclusion or other grouper rule prevents the effect. However, the financial effect is never sufficient justification for a query. Documentation must be clinically supported and reflect the patient's actual condition.
A dietitian may document detailed nutrition findings and malnutrition criteria, but the reportable diagnosis ordinarily requires documentation by the provider responsible for establishing diagnoses. Therefore, when strong nutritional indicators exist but the provider has not documented malnutrition, a compliant query may be appropriate.
For CCDS preparation, candidates should understand both the clinical characteristics of malnutrition and its coding/reimbursement classification.
CCDS Reference Topics: MCCs; malnutrition; MS-DRG methodology; documentation requirements; IPPS.
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NEW QUESTION # 137
A 34-year-old female was admitted from a group home with uncontrolled diabetes. A CDI specialist must query to specify the patient's mental incapacity since it makes management of the diabetes more difficult.
Which of the following terminology recognized by ICD-10-CM could result in the assignment of a comorbid condition?
Answer: D
Explanation:
Severe intellectual disability is recognized ICD-10-CM terminology and maps to F72, Severe intellectual disabilities. The other phrases are not equivalent standardized ICD-10-CM diagnostic terminology.
This distinction is highly relevant to CDI. Terms used conversationally in the clinical record do not necessarily provide sufficient specificity or map cleanly to reportable ICD-10-CM diagnoses. When a patient's cognitive or developmental condition affects treatment, monitoring, self-management, nursing requirements, or the complexity of care, the CDI specialist should seek clinically appropriate provider documentation using recognized diagnostic terminology.
For FY 2026 MS-DRG logic, CMS identifies F72 as a CC, meaning it can qualify as a complication
/comorbidity when it meets secondary-diagnosis reporting requirements. That does not mean the CDI specialist should query merely for reimbursement impact. The query must be clinically justified by the record and should allow the provider to determine the correct diagnosis.
"Severe mental challenge," "acute mental incapacity," and "acute intellectual disability" do not represent the same codable disease classification.
CCDS Reference Topics: Medical terminology; mental/behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders; CC recognition; clinically supported query opportunities.
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NEW QUESTION # 138
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