HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2018 Issue 2 (January)

OIG Work Plan: What did the OIG work on and what did they find?

January 9th, 2018

Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CEMC, CRC, CCDS, writes about the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) recent audit findings regarding the ICD-9-CM diagnosis code for kwashiorkor, and discusses what coders can do to stay compliant when coding guidance is lacking.

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