You’ve finished planning your next local chapter event. You’ve found the speakers and created an agenda. Now, you want to start advertising and getting people interested. Offering CCDS CEUs can be a great way to entice folks to participate.Read More »
In addition to amazing educational and networking opportunities, the annual ACDIS Conference offers the CDI community the opportunity to honor professionals who exemplify the documentation improvement mission in the ACDIS Achievement Awards. Read More »
Q:We’ve encountered audit takebacks and denials from a certain payer who removed codes and procedures that result in lower DRGs. Do you have any advice for fighting or preventing these types of denials?Read More »
Starting this year, CMS plans to conduct an annual call for measures related to the Medicare EHR Incentive Program, the agency announced last week.Read More »
The conversation bounced around the importance of building a community of caring. The speakers talked about the development of family and the communities that extended families create. They also spoke of changing societal norms which make geographic, topic-...Read More »
FEATURES 7 Concurrent coding 12 CMS-HCC version 23 released 17 Mortality reviews and publicly reported quality scores 25 Submit questions to Coding...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
It’s that time of the year again: time to pull down the tome that is the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final rule and mine its pages for changes relevant to daily CDI reviews. While intimidating at more than 600 pages, the IPPS rule can be broken...Read More »
