Healthcare
HSAG PUBLISHES VALIDATION STUDY ON HYPOGLYCEMIA DIAGNOSIS CODES WITH CDC.HSAG Continues Legacy of Success in Hospital Quality Improvement Work.HSAG Publishes Validation Study on Hypoglycemia Diagnosis Codes With CDC.HSAG conducted a multisite, retrospective record review in a sample of Medicare beneficiaries to assess the validity of ICD-10-CM diagnosis code assignments for identifying medication-related hypoglycemia leading to acute care encounters. The article is available in the journal Medical Care ..HSAG, the ESRD NCC contractor, and CMS recently published a CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on excess deaths among patients with ESRD that found as many as 10,316 more deaths than expected among nearly 800,000 ESRD patients during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients with ESRD are at a high risk for illness and death from COVID-19.
