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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical Documentation Review & Query Practices | 20% | - Query development, communication, and ethical standards - Documentation gap identification and resolution - Concurrent and retrospective chart review methodologies |
| 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 |
| Healthcare Regulations, Reimbursement & Documentation Requirements – IPPS | 15% | - Medicare Severity Diagnostic Related Groups (MS-DRGs) - Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) fundamentals - Documentation responsibilities of medical and clinical staff |
| CDI Program Management & Professional Practice | 15% | - Ethics, HIPAA, and professional conduct - Provider education and training strategies - Program metrics, benchmarks, and performance measurement |
| Coding Guidelines & Official Reporting Standards | 15% | - ICD-10-CM/PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting - AHIMA/ACDIS Guidelines for Compliant Query Practice - Coding integrity and compliant documentation practices |
| Clinical Knowledge & Disease Processes Application | 20% | - Medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology - Clinical indicators, lab results, medications, diagnostic findings - Disease processes across body systems applied to chart review |
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NEW QUESTION # 11
A patient is admitted for UTI with AMS. The physician documents "UTI due to Escherichia coli." CT scan of the head is negative, with AMS improving and family reporting the patient is now at baseline. Admission creatinine is 1.2 mg/dL and sodium is 146 mEq/L. Plan is discharge home today.
The CDI specialist should query for the:
Answer: B
Explanation:
The clinically meaningful documentation gap concerns what condition actually occasioned the inpatient admission and whether the altered mental status represents a defined diagnosis associated with the episode.
The record identifies a UTI due to E. coli, but the patient also presented with AMS significant enough to undergo head CT evaluation. The AMS subsequently resolved to baseline.
A creatinine of 1.2 mg/dL alone does not establish acute kidney injury because AKI requires evidence of an acute change from baseline and appropriate clinical context. Similarly, sodium of 146 mEq/L is only minimally elevated and, without clinical evaluation or treatment demonstrating significance, does not justify a query designed to generate hypernatremia.
Merely clarifying AMS as acute versus chronic is also less useful than determining the actual diagnosis explaining the altered mental state and its relationship to the admission. Depending on provider judgment and supporting evidence, possibilities could include an acute encephalopathic process, delirium, symptoms associated with infection, or another condition.
The query should remain neutral and should not presume that the UTI caused the AMS.
CCDS Reference Topics: Principal diagnosis clarification; AMS; clinical indicators; query prioritization; documentation integrity.
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NEW QUESTION # 12
A patient with active breast cancer is admitted solely to receive a scheduled cycle of antineoplastic chemotherapy. No complication or acute disease process is responsible for the admission. Which diagnosis is generally sequenced first?
Answer: D
Explanation:
When an inpatient encounter is solely for administration of chemotherapy, the encounter-for-chemotherapy code is generally sequenced first, followed by the code identifying the malignancy being treated.
This represents an important exception to the usual expectation that the underlying disease is the principal diagnosis. The circumstances of admission are specifically treatment administration rather than management of an acute complication of the malignancy.
If, however, the patient were admitted because of a complication-such as chemotherapy-induced neutropenic fever, dehydration, anemia, or another adverse effect-the principal-diagnosis analysis would follow the applicable guideline for that condition rather than automatically using the chemotherapy encounter code.
Similarly, if chemotherapy were administered incidentally during a hospitalization principally required for another condition, the encounter-for-chemotherapy code would not displace the actual principal diagnosis.
CDI professionals should therefore distinguish planned treatment encounters from admissions caused by complications of treatment or malignancy.
Clear documentation regarding the reason for admission, cancer site, treatment intent, metastatic disease, and complications helps support proper sequencing and accurate oncology data.
CCDS Reference Topics: Antineoplastic chemotherapy; encounter codes; neoplasm sequencing; principal diagnosis; oncology documentation.
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NEW QUESTION # 13
A patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus is admitted with stage 4 chronic kidney disease. The physician documents both conditions but does not explicitly state that the CKD is caused by diabetes. No documentation indicates that the conditions are unrelated. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate coding approach?
Answer: B
Explanation:
ICD-10-CM permits a presumed causal relationship between diabetes mellitus and certain conditions indexed under "diabetes, with," including chronic kidney disease. Therefore, when diabetes and CKD are both documented and the provider has not specifically indicated that they are unrelated, the diabetes-with-CKD combination code is assigned together with an additional code identifying the CKD stage.
For type 2 diabetes, diabetic CKD is classified to E11.22, while an N18.- code identifies the documented CKD stage. In this scenario, stage 4 CKD would be additionally represented by the appropriate stage-specific N18 code.
A query is not routinely necessary simply to obtain wording such as "diabetic CKD" when the classification itself establishes the presumed relationship. However, clarification would be appropriate if documentation explicitly states another unrelated etiology or contains contradictory information.
This distinction is important for CDI because excessive querying can create unnecessary provider burden.
CDI specialists must understand which diagnostic relationships require explicit provider linkage and which are established through ICD-10-CM conventions.
The FY 2026 Official Guidelines remain applicable to discharges through September 30, 2026.
CCDS Reference Topics: Diabetes; CKD; presumed causal relationships; combination codes; coding conventions.
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NEW QUESTION # 14
A CDI specialist submits a neutral query regarding possible acute blood loss anemia. The physician answers
"clinically unable to determine." The CDI specialist believes documenting the diagnosis would increase reimbursement substantially. What is the MOST appropriate next action?
Answer: A
Explanation:
The provider's response should be respected unless new information or a genuine unresolved documentation issue creates a legitimate reason for additional clarification.
"Clinically unable to determine" is an acceptable professional conclusion when the available evidence does not permit the provider to confidently establish a diagnosis. A CDI specialist must not continue sending essentially the same query simply because a different response would produce more favorable reimbursement.
Likewise, CDI cannot alter the provider's response or instruct coding personnel to assign a diagnosis that the provider declined to establish.
The 2026 ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice supersede all previous versions and serve as the current foundational resource for query processes. The query process is intended to improve the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of documentation-not to secure a predetermined financial result.
A legitimate follow-up could occur if new laboratory values, operative findings, transfusion information, pathology, or other material information emerges after the original response and creates a materially different clarification question.
Professional CDI practice requires balancing clinical advocacy with provider autonomy, ethical conduct, and regulatory compliance.
CCDS Reference Topics: Provider query responses; ethical CDI practice; repeated queries; provider independence; compliance.
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NEW QUESTION # 15
A patient develops a surgical-site infection after abdominal surgery and is admitted with sepsis. The surgeon clearly documents "sepsis due to postoperative wound infection." Which diagnosis category is generally sequenced first?
Answer: D
Explanation:
Sepsis resulting from a postprocedural infection follows specialized sequencing rules. The code identifying the postprocedural infection or surgical-site infection is sequenced first when applicable, followed by the code for sepsis following a procedure and any additional codes required for the infectious organism or severe sepsis.
The FY 2026 Official Guidelines specifically state that for sepsis following a postprocedural wound or surgical-site infection, the appropriate postprocedural infection code is sequenced first. An additional code for sepsis following a procedure is then assigned. If severe sepsis exists, the appropriate R65.2- code and codes for acute organ dysfunction are additionally reported.
This differs from ordinary sepsis due to a localized infection, where the systemic infection is typically sequenced before the localized infection when sepsis is the reason for admission.
The cause-and-effect relationship is also essential. A wound infection merely occurring after surgery does not automatically establish a postprocedural complication. Here, the surgeon has explicitly documented that relationship, so the necessary clinical linkage is present.
CCDS Reference Topics: Postprocedural infection; sepsis; surgical-site infection; complication coding; sequencing.
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NEW QUESTION # 16
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