There are a mere 75 days left until the 4th Annual ACDIS Conference in Orlando (April 7-8). Amazing how quickly the hands on old father time’s clock spin. It seems like just yesterday we were unpacking the boxes from the Chicago conference last June and here we are again preparing for...Read More »
In a meeting Thursday, January 13, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended Congress provide a 2.5% update with a 1.5% documentation and coding adjustment (DCA) reduction for a net 1% update for fiscal year 2012 inpatient payments, according to a report from ...Read More »
At the start of the New Year, CMS released an enhanced Physician Comparesite which “begins to fill an important gap in our online tools by...Read More »
Q: Our physician provided an illegible diagnosis of malnutrition, and when we queried him regarding the specific type of malnutrition, he provided protein malnutrition. The ICD-9-CMCoding Manual directs us to assign code 260;...Read More »