2025 CDI: Sepsis Documentation [IEM]

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Original Release Date: 09/30/2025
Expire09/30/2027

Credit claim for this activity will end at 11:59 PM 09/30/2027

Overview: 

BSWH continues to use the same diagnostic criteria utilized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)  for the SEP-1 program but sepsis and SEP-1 are not the same. Sepsis is a diagnosis while SEP-1 is a quality measure used to evaluate quality of care in patients diagnosed with severe sepsis and septic shock. Ambiguous documentation can lead to incorrect coding.

Commercial Support:
No commercial support was received for this activity.​​​​​​

Target Audience

Physicians, Specialty Physicians, Fellows, Residents,  Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists across the system.

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity, the learner should be able to:

  • Assess discrepancies in sepsis diagnostic criteria
  • Apply the BSWH institutional guidelines for the diagnosis of sepsis
  • Demonstrate the new BSWH system guidance for proper documentation of sepsis
  • Review documentation reasons for sepsis denials

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.50 American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC Part 2
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.50 MOC points in the American Board of Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 0.50 Attendance
Course opens: 
09/30/2025
Course expires: 
09/30/2027

Planners/Authors: 

  • Krysten Longoria - PA-C, CPC-A
  • Sunita Varghees, MD 

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships:
Each person in control of content has disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Commercial Support:
No commercial support was received for this activity.

Accreditation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health, designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of .50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC:  Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

This CME activity type is an enduring material.  Physicians who complete the enduring material may claim the full amount of credit designated for the activity, regardless of the amount of time it took the physician to complete the activity.

 

Available Credit

  • 0.50 American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC Part 2
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.50 MOC points in the American Board of Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 0.50 Attendance
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