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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting | 14.17% | - Principal and secondary diagnosis assignment - Coding guidelines, AHA Coding Clinic, HACs, and POA indicators |
| Topic 2: Medical record documentation | 19.17% | - Documentation clarification and compliant physician queries - Documentation requirements and diagnosis or procedure code assignment |
| Topic 3: Healthcare facility CDI program analysis | 8.33% | - CDI productivity, provider response, CMI, and program metrics - Data analysis, forecasting, and performance measurement |
| Topic 4: Impact of reportable diagnoses on quality of care | 8.33% | - Mortality, severity of illness, and risk of mortality - Quality metrics, reporting programs, and financial impact |
| Topic 5: Communication skills | 9.17% | - CDI and coding roles and interdisciplinary collaboration - Physician education and effective communication |
| Topic 6: Healthcare regulations, reimbursement, and documentation requirements related to the IPPS | 12.5% | - IPPS, MS-DRGs, reimbursement, and medical necessity - CC/MCC, CMI, Medicare contractors, and compliance |
| Topic 7: Anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and medical terminology | 19.17% | - Anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and terminology - Clinical conditions and clinical indicators |
| Topic 8: Professionalism, ethics, and compliance | 9.17% | - Query compliance, DRG creep, and audit risks - Confidentiality, DRG compliance, and ethical CDI practices |
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NEW QUESTION # 117
A patient is admitted with community-acquired pneumonia. On day 3, he begins to show signs of increasing respiratory distress and requires intubation. When he arrives in the ICU, the nurse inserts a urinary catheter and notes that his urine output has decreased. The physician documents respiratory failure and acute renal failure secondary to sepsis caused by pneumonia. The patient's condition would be classified as:
Answer: B
Explanation:
This patient has sepsis with documented acute organ dysfunction, specifically acute respiratory failure and acute renal failure. Under ICD-10-CM coding guidance, sepsis associated with acute organ dysfunction is classified as severe sepsis when the provider establishes the relationship between the systemic infection and the organ dysfunction.
The documentation specifically states that respiratory failure and acute renal failure are secondary to sepsis caused by pneumonia. That causal linkage is critical. FY 2026 Official Guidelines require the underlying systemic infection code, followed by a code from R65.2- for severe sepsis, plus additional codes identifying each associated acute organ dysfunction.
Septic shock is not supported because the scenario does not document circulatory failure attributable to sepsis, persistent hypotension requiring vasopressors, or a provider diagnosis of septic shock. "Septicemia" is also not equivalent terminology for coding sepsis and is not the appropriate classification here.
From a CDI perspective, the defining feature is not simply that the patient is critically ill. It is the documented relationship between sepsis and acute organ dysfunction.
CCDS Reference Topics: Sepsis; severe sepsis; acute organ dysfunction; sequencing guidelines.
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NEW QUESTION # 118
A hospital has a total MS-DRG relative weight of 2,640 for 1,600 inpatient discharges. What is its case mix index?
Answer: B
Explanation:
Case mix index is calculated by dividing the sum of MS-DRG relative weights by the number of inpatient discharges:
2,640 ÷ 1,600 = 1.65
Therefore, the CMI is 1.65.
CMI represents the average relative resource intensity of the hospital's inpatient cases. It is affected by the types of patients treated, surgical versus medical mix, tertiary services, transplant or trauma volume, documentation specificity, coding accuracy, and annual changes to MS-DRG relative weights and grouper logic.
CMS publishes hospital case-mix information and FY 2026 relative weighting factors through the IPPS Final Rule supporting data. Table 5 contains MS-DRGs and relative weighting factors, while Table 2 contains hospital-specific case-mix information.
A decline in CMI should not automatically be interpreted as a CDI failure. A shift toward lower-complexity cases or changes in service lines can legitimately reduce CMI even with excellent documentation.
CDI managers should therefore trend CMI alongside diagnosis capture, surgical volume, service lines, payer population, coding reconciliation, and quality indicators.
CCDS Reference Topics: Case mix index; MS-DRG relative weight; CDI analytics; hospital performance.
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NEW QUESTION # 119
A physician writes, "respiratory failure following surgery." The patient required mechanical ventilation for several hours after a prolonged major operation, and anesthesia documentation indicates this was an anticipated part of postoperative recovery. What is the BEST CDI action?
Answer: C
Explanation:
The CDI specialist should clarify the clinical significance and relationship to the procedure. Not every condition occurring after surgery constitutes a complication of care, and mechanical ventilation itself does not establish postoperative respiratory failure.
Major operations often require planned postoperative ventilatory support because of anesthesia, surgical duration, hemodynamic status, or other expected recovery needs. Conversely, unexpected inability to extubate, severe hypoxemia or hypercapnia, escalating ventilatory support, or other clinical deterioration may support a genuine postoperative respiratory complication.
ICD-10-CM complication reporting requires careful attention to provider documentation of the relationship between the condition and the procedure. The FY 2026 Official Guidelines emphasize that the fact a condition occurs after a procedure is not, by itself, sufficient to classify it as a complication.
Option A therefore assumes a complication that may not exist. Option C improperly alters provider documentation without clarification. Option D mistakes treatment for diagnosis.
A compliant query should objectively present respiratory findings, duration of ventilation, reintubation or escalation when present, and the operative/anesthesia documentation, then allow the provider to characterize the condition.
CCDS Reference Topics: Postoperative respiratory failure; complications of care; mechanical ventilation; clinical validation.
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NEW QUESTION # 120
A patient is admitted with chest pain and borderline elevation of troponins. The patient also reports a history of GERD. The physician documents that the chest pain is "likely GI in origin" and prescribes omeprazole.
Based on the clinical indicators, which of the following actions should the CDI specialist take?
Answer: C
Explanation:
The documentation does not clearly establish the definitive condition chiefly responsible for the inpatient admission. The patient has chest pain, borderline troponin elevation, and a history of GERD, while the physician describes the symptoms only as "likely GI in origin." The appropriate CDI action is therefore to clarify the condition responsible for the admission rather than independently select GERD or myocardial infarction.
A history of GERD does not establish that GERD caused the present chest pain. Likewise, borderline troponin elevation alone does not establish an AMI, so a query that directs the provider toward AMI would be inappropriate without stronger clinical support.
For inpatient coding, uncertain diagnoses documented at discharge using terms such as "probable,"
"suspected," or "likely" may be coded as though established. However, the phrase "GI in origin" still fails to identify a specific gastrointestinal disease responsible for the admission. The CDI specialist's purpose is to obtain clinically meaningful diagnostic clarification rather than infer a diagnosis from treatment such as omeprazole.
A compliant query should include the relevant symptoms, diagnostic findings, treatment, and supported alternatives without indicating financial consequences.
CCDS Reference Topics: Principal diagnosis clarification; ambiguous documentation; compliant querying; clinical indicators.
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NEW QUESTION # 121
A CDI program reports the following monthly results:
- Provider response rate: 97%
- Provider agreement rate: 84%
- Queries issued after discharge: 38%
- CDI/coder agreement: 96%
Which metric presents the clearest opportunity to improve concurrent CDI workflow?
Answer: D
Explanation:
The 38% post-discharge query rate represents the clearest workflow opportunity because a large proportion of clarification is occurring after the concurrent hospitalization period.
A 97% provider response rate reflects strong physician participation, while a 96% CDI/coder agreement rate indicates substantial alignment between concurrent CDI review and final coding. An 84% agreement rate is not inherently problematic because providers must remain free to disagree with a query based on their clinical judgment.
A high retrospective-query percentage can indicate that cases are being reviewed too late, that certain documentation opportunities are not recognized during hospitalization, that discharge documentation introduces unresolved diagnoses, or that staffing/workflow does not adequately prioritize cases before discharge.
A CDI manager should drill further into the metric by service line, query type, day of stay, weekday/weekend discharge, provider group, and reason for retrospective clarification. This analysis helps distinguish unavoidable retrospective queries from remediable process problems.
The objective is not to eliminate every post-discharge query. Some documentation issues become apparent only after final testing, pathology, procedures, or discharge summaries are completed.
CCDS Reference Topics: CDI program metrics; concurrent versus retrospective review; workflow analysis; performance improvement.
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