Having been jointly developed by 3M™ and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions, the APR-DRG system’s intent was to help describe pediatric patients’ congenital disease processes and depth of resources required to care for complicated pediatric patients.Read More »
Every year, the members of the Chapter Advisory Board (CAB) review the formal ACDIS Local Chapter Agreement Form. This year the CAB and the ACDIS administration put a tremendous amount of effort into re-...Read More »
More than half of the 626 health systems in the United States have only one or two hospitals within the system, but the largest systems have 18 or more hospitals.Read More »
The Blog is a great place to share your CDI experiences, tips, and stories with the broader ACDIS membership in a more informal setting than (for instance) the CDI Journal. Read More »
lease take a moment to respond to the new polling question today. It'll only take a moment of your time and it will directly influence ACDIS' offerings in the new year.Read More »
Q: We are trying to educate our coding department about medical necessity, but has CMS or Medicare defined it anywhere? How can we explain it to staff?Read More »