Clearing the Brain Fog Around Coding Altered Mental Status

Altered mental status: it’s the admitting diagnosis that can have coders brace themselves for what they’re about to read. AMS can be an indication of various conditions ranging from physiological to behavioral in nature and quite often is the result of encephalopathy. Join us for a discussion about causes of AMS, the types of encephalopathy, challenges in deciphering clinical documentation, and tips for identifying, querying, and coding underlying causes of AMS.