The “Acute Kidney Failure” course is a guide to understand the impact and importance of clinical documentation specificity & diagnostic terms. It will help in Understanding Secondary diagnoses (CC/MCC)* impact on the Severity of illness, Risk of mortality & Reimbursements. It will also provide the guidance on  when & How to Query the physician for the documentation clarification in a compliant manner.

Learning Objectives

By the end of  this module, you should be able to:

1. Identify coding and diagnostic elements that should be identified to support high quality clinical documentation and coding
2. Understand Acute Kidney Failure- Clinical Documentation and the Diagnosis Specificity impact on the Patient Quality care
3. Understand the Clinical Indicators & Coding Overview
4. Know the Impact of Documentation
5. Know the Common severity indicators
6. Understand Secondary diagnoses (CC/MCC)* impact on the Severity of illness, Risk of mortality & Reimbursements
7. Know, When to Query?
8. Assess Case Studies with IR-DRG Impact 

* CC-Comorbid conditions:*MCC-Major Comorbidity /Complication