CMS has updated Medicare payment rules for inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and hospices.
For the fiscal year 2021 IPF Prospective Payment System Final Rule, a 2.2% payment rate update is being finalized, as well as CMS’ proposal to adopt revised...Read More »
Can you please discuss right heart failure and its relationship to pulmonary hypertension instead of diastolic heart failure. For example, established diagnosis of heart failure and methamphetamine intoxication, established diagnosis of heart and smoke inhalation or carboxyhemoglobinemia, or...Read More »
The ACDIS Leadership Council connects forward-thinking CDI leaders through personalized sharing of insights and networking experiences that forge valuable relationships, advance strategic priorities, and illuminate game-changing trends....Read More »
The ACDIS Regulatory Committee is tasked with the reviewing regulatory policy, coding, and clinical updates, commenting to agencies on behalf of ACDIS, and providing summary, interpretation, and analysis to ACDIS members.
The Committee kicked off a new initiative for 2020, in which the...Read More »
Some of the most commonly queried diagnoses become focus areas simply because different physicians have different clinical definitions for what constitutes a given condition.
To help reduce confusion, CDI professionals can bring coding, quality, and clinical teams together to conduct...Read More »
ACDIS wants to remind chapter leaders to contact both ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) as well as ACDIS Editor Carolyn Riel (criel@acdis.org) with information about any upcoming...Read More »
While the ACDIS Leadership Council launched back in September 2019, my work with it began in January of this year. The Council exists to connect forward-...Read More »
Originally published near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on the United States, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and American Hospital Association (AHA) have updated their list of...Read More »
