Facing the ongoing struggles of malnutrition diagnoses

Article Overview

This article discusses the ongoing difficulty of documenting malnutrition consistently in the medical record and why that matters for CDI, coding, quality reporting, and reimbursement. It focuses on provider documentation gaps, the role of dietitians and multidisciplinary teams, broad nutrition-screening processes, and the ICD-10-CM malnutrition code family as part of a larger documentation-improvement effort. The piece is intended for CDI professionals, coders, clinical providers, and nutrition staff who work with malnutrition-related records and hospital documentation workflows.