It was a cold January day in 1961, 61 years ago next week. The words “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for country,” uttered over the inauguration podium, resonating across the airwaves. Now, repeated a thousand times, and a...Read More »
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently conducted an audit of Healthfirst Health Plan, Inc., focused on seven groups of high-risk diagnosis codes to determine whether the organization complied with federal...Read More »
A recent analysis by Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker found that hospital-set prices for COVID-19 tests ranged greatly from as low at $20 to as high as $ 1,419. While the...Read More »
Offering integrative oncology services such as nutrition counseling and patient support groups benefits many breast cancer patients, a recent ...Read More »
May a physician/provider, who does not take care of a patient during an episode of care answer a query for another physician who did take care of the patient, but does not have time to answer the queries issued to them by the CDI/coders? Could that documented response be used as a basis for...Read More »
ACDIS releases several position papers annually and makes them available to all CDI professionals, regardless of ACDIS membership status. The ACDIS Advisory Board, in collaboration with ACDIS leadership, has been working on a three-part series on risk-based CDI. The...Read More »
The recertification process for the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS)/CCDS-Outpatient (CCDS-O) ensures that CDI professionals stay abreast of changing government and private-payer regulations, documentation and coding requirements, and important developments in the field of CDI...Read More »
