Two physicians and three nurses were sentenced last week in a $11.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for home health services, the OIG...Read More »
Nearly $300 million in awards could help provide scholarships and loan repayment services for healthcare providers in an effort to expand the workforce, according to a press...Read More »
Q:Can you provide some tips on how to educate physicians and encourage them to respond to your queries? My hospital is a teaching facility and the system is set up so that nurses can’t even call an attending directly. In most...Read More »
If you search for Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 90 (Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite) in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Version 7.0 software released in October 2017, you won’t find it.
As we approach the end of 2018, ACDIS is looking back over its webinar offerings from this year. Starting in January, ACDIS has offered nine webinars covering a wide variety of CDI topics (and we’re planning one more for December on the new malnutrition criteria with Richard Pinson, MD, and...Read More »
To help CDI professionals in this central piece of their work, the ACDIS Advisory Board has published a new white paper titled “How to conduct a medical record review.” The paper defines a recommended process for medical...Read More »
