“We felt that if we had our own internal dedicated team, we could watch [CDI efforts] much more closely,” said Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, system director of CDI and coding at Baptist Health System in Louisville, Kentucky, when asked about bringing their home health CDI program in-house instead...Read More »
The fiscal year 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule threw gas on the population health fire when it proposed giving social determinants of health (SDOH) codes more weight as complications/comorbid conditions (CC). The final rule threw some water on the pyre, however,...Read More »
ACDIS National requires local chapters be led by at least three individuals from three different organizations. It’s a section of the agreement that brings up a lot of questions from new folks, so ACDIS wanted to provide a bit of the reasoning behind the requirement.Read More »
The ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee met on September 10–11, 2019 to discuss code proposals for implementation on October 1, 2020, for fiscal year 2021. Several members of the ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee listened to or...Read More »
by Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, COBGC
The fiscal year (FY) 2020 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, released shortly after the FY 2020 ICD-10-CM code release, provide instructions for healthcare professionals on how to appropriately report...Read More »
The concept of “conflicting documentation” is a frustrating and never-ending annoyance in the CDI arena. I have grown to despise the phrase that I hear daily, as it suggests that doctors are warring with each other in the medical...Read More »
By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
It’s fall—a season for football and pumpkin lattes. That means it’s also time for the Third and Fourth Quarter American Hospital Association (AHA) Coding Clinic releases. Both were released on the same day and, because one...Read More »
