CMS recently released its Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) with statistics from the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 for short-term acute care hospitals nationwide.Read More »
CMS released the final 2018 ICD-10-CM code set for October 1 implementation this week. The update includes codes relating to cardiac conditions, substances, and myocardial infarctions (MI)—to name a few.Read More »
Researchers studying ED visits at a freestanding academic children’s hospital from June 1, 2013, to May 31, 2015, found that electronic alerts help reduce missed pediatric sepsis diagnoses by 76%,...Read More »
CMS may have paid $729 million in electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments that didn’t comply with the federal standards between May 2011 and June 2014, according to the Office of Inspector General (OIG),...Read More »
Q: At my institution, we typically do not capture the pleural effusions noted and documented with a congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbation unless a pleural tap was completed. Coding Clinic states it is acceptable to...Read More »
Re-finding your favorite article can be a difficult task. It doesn’t have to feel like banging your head against a wall, though. If you’re logged into the ACDIS website, you can actually “favorite” articles and access them all from one spot when you want to return to them.Read More »
It’s hard to believe, but CDI Week 2017 is less than 100 days away. Every year, facilities large and small celebrate the efforts of their CDI programs for one week in September. This year’s event takes place September 18-22. In the past, CDI departments held department parties, wore matching CDI...Read More »
The ACDIS community is a close-knit group—sharing stories, offering help and advice. One of the many things the ACDIS team loves doing is disseminating members’ stories to the larger ACDIS membership. Sometimes this takes the form of an interview on a specific topic for the CDI Journal...Read More »
