The ACDIS advisory board is conducting an ongoing educational series on provider engagement. As part of this series, the board has developed a survey to gather data on the relationship between provider engagement efforts, provider buy-in, and their impact on CDI chart review productivity.Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Payers deny claims on a wide variety of grounds, but it’s no secret that certain diagnoses seem to be frequent denial targets. Each year, respondents to the...Read More »
When planning a local chapter event, be sure to allow for 30 minutes or more if needed after the last educational presenter to have a chapter business meeting. This is particularly important in the early stages of the chapter’s inception as well as later when the group takes on ever more...Read More »
by Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC
Despite not having a formal denials management team at Penn Highlands Healthcare, I am fortunate enough to assist our coding department when we receive a clinical validation denial. Since I am a respiratory therapist by background,...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
I'm writing this a few weeks before Halloween, but I'm already feeling haunted. The spirit in question is the ghost of the ACDIS conference, our annual springtime gathering in the city where everything that happens stays there as long as nobody...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Few things evoke such a visceral response from CDI professionals as the phrase “payer denial.” Organizations with which I am familiar deal with constantly increasing payer denial volumes and continually evolving denial strategies as...Read More »
Merle Zuel, RN, CCDS, is a CDI advisor at Kansas City VA Medical Center (KCVA) and an active member of ACDIS’ Kansas City chapter since 2018. He is a member of the 2020/2021 ACDIS CDI Leadership Council and earned his CCDS this year.
