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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Clinical Documentation Review & Query Practices | 20% | - Documentation gap identification and resolution - Concurrent and retrospective chart review methodologies - Query development, communication, and ethical standards |
| Topic 2: Coding Guidelines & Official Reporting Standards | 15% | - Coding integrity and compliant documentation practices - AHIMA/ACDIS Guidelines for Compliant Query Practice - ICD-10-CM/PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting |
| Topic 3: CDI Program Management & Professional Practice | 15% | - Program metrics, benchmarks, and performance measurement - Ethics, HIPAA, and professional conduct - Provider education and training strategies |
| Topic 4: Healthcare Regulations, Reimbursement & Documentation Requirements – IPPS | 15% | - Medicare Severity Diagnostic Related Groups (MS-DRGs) - Documentation responsibilities of medical and clinical staff - Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) fundamentals |
| Topic 5: Clinical Knowledge & Disease Processes Application | 20% | - Disease processes across body systems applied to chart review - Medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology - Clinical indicators, lab results, medications, diagnostic findings |
| Topic 6: Quality, Risk Adjustment & Health Initiatives | 15% | - Severity of Illness (SOI) / Risk of Mortality (ROM) - Risk adjustment models and documentation impact - Quality reporting, public reporting, and compliance programs |
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NEW QUESTION # 65
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 # 66
Documentation indicates an excisional debridement was performed without further specification. The CDI specialist should query to clarify which of the following?
Answer: B
Explanation:
The most critical missing element is the depth or level of tissue actually debrided. Documentation of an excisional debridement should identify whether tissue removed included skin, subcutaneous tissue, fascia, muscle, bone, or another anatomical layer. The level removed is fundamental to accurate procedural classification and coding.
CMS wound-care documentation standards similarly emphasize that the medical record should describe the type and depth of tissue removed. Merely knowing that an excisional debridement occurred does not establish the anatomical level of the procedure.
The instrument may provide useful procedural context-for example, scalpel, scissors, curette, or other technique-but the instrument alone does not identify the deepest tissue excised. Wound size can be important for clinical care and certain coding systems, but it does not replace documentation of the tissue level removed. The identity of the person performing the procedure is also part of procedural documentation but does not answer the principal coding-specific deficiency in this scenario.
A CDI query should therefore seek the deepest tissue level actually excised rather than infer it from the wound's overall depth.
CCDS Reference Topics: Medical record documentation; ICD-10-PCS/procedure documentation; debridement specificity.
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NEW QUESTION # 67
A CDI specialist drafts the following query:
"Please document acute respiratory failure because the patient's oxygen saturation is 84% and this diagnosis will qualify as an MCC." What is the MOST appropriate action?
Answer: D
Explanation:
The query should be rewritten as a neutral, clinically supported clarification request. The original wording is noncompliant because it directs the physician toward a particular diagnosis and explicitly identifies its reimbursement consequence.
The current ACDIS/AHIMA 2026 Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice, released in August
2026, supersede prior versions and emphasize that the query process exists to ensure the health record accurately reflects the patient's clinical status.
A compliant query could present relevant findings such as oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, blood-gas values, oxygen requirements, work of breathing, escalation to noninvasive or invasive ventilation, and treatment. It should then request clarification using clinically reasonable choices or another compliant format without highlighting which answer produces an MCC.
An oxygen saturation of 84% may be an important indicator, but a CDI specialist may not convert that finding independently into respiratory failure. The provider must evaluate the complete clinical picture.
Approval from a coding manager does not cure biased wording. Substituting "CC" for "MCC" likewise leaves the fundamental compliance problem intact.
CCDS Reference Topics: Query compliance; leading queries; respiratory failure; ethical CDI practice.
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NEW QUESTION # 68
Which of the following is considered by CMS to be a HAC requiring MS-DRG adjustment if not POA?
Answer: B
Explanation:
CMS specifically includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism following certain orthopedic procedures, including total knee replacement and hip replacement, among Hospital-Acquired Conditions subject to the HAC/POA payment provisions. Therefore, option C is correct.
Under the IPPS HAC payment policy, qualifying conditions that were not present on admission may lose their normal CC/MCC effect for MS-DRG assignment when all applicable criteria are met. This makes accurate POA determination essential in CDI and coding.
Pressure ulcers are also part of the HAC framework, but the CMS category historically applies specifically to Stage III and Stage IV pressure ulcers. An unstageable pressure ulcer does not automatically satisfy the Stage III/IV HAC category merely because it is severe or clinically significant. CMS materials distinguish an unstageable ulcer from a documented Stage III or IV ulcer.
Postoperative pneumonia and septic shock are not, by themselves, the specified HAC category represented by the answer choices.
The CCDS blueprint specifically requires candidates to identify CMS-designated HACs and understand the effect of POA assignment on payment.
CCDS Reference Topics: IPPS; Hospital-Acquired Conditions; POA; MS-DRG adjustment.
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NEW QUESTION # 69
A physician documents obesity. A registered dietitian records a BMI of 38.4 kg/m². Which statement is MOST accurate?
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 70
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