It was so amazing to be back at the Hilton at Disney Springs in Orlando last week for the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI. I say “back” because ACDIS held its 2011 conference at the hotel. I remember the event so vividly. It was the first year we asked...Read More »
A trial court judge ruled on November 1 that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must eliminate the Medicare appeals backlog by 2022. At the time of the ruling,...Read More »
Confusion and a lack of guidance about Medicare knee replacement rules has caused many hospitals to treat all Medicare beneficiaries undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) as outpatients, according to a survey by the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons...Read More »
Q: I would like to add encephalopathy due to UTI to our quick coding tips. Coding Clinic instructs coding professionals to code as G93.49, other encephalopathy, which is now a CC. The CDI specialists want to query for metabolic...Read More »
ACDIS members are invited to participate in ACDIS’ Quarterly Membership Conference Call on Thursday, November 29. Please note that this call was initially scheduled for today, November 15, but has been postponed till after the holiday. During the call, the ACDIS Advisory Board and members of the...Read More »
