Because of the industry’s confusion over sepsis criteria sets, organizations find it difficult to decide which guidelines to follow for their sepsis documentation.
“Many third-party payers have adopted Sepsis-3 criteria, which is not in line with what CMS is doing,” says ...Read More »
The turning of the year often means a change in leadership for some local chapter groups. ACDIS annually updates its leadership agreement form with the help of the Chapter Advisory Board. All volunteers must sign the agreement annually by January 30.
Typically, CDI specialists’ work happens before the bill drops, while the patient is in the hospital or immediately following discharge before final coding. Even with the most stringent CDI processes and an exceptionally engaged physician group, we know that...Read More »
It used to come annually. Every October, compliance officers across the country would delve into its pages to determine what the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) planned to investigate for the coming calendar year—and what their facility’s risk level might be.
More than a dozen academic, public health, and healthcare partners formed a coalition with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to launch Project Firstline, a national training collaborative to help...Read More »
Almost half of hospitals in the United States will be getting lower payments for Medicare patients due to their readmission history, according to an analysis reported in Kaiser Health News...Read More »
What actions do CDI teams take when staff receive “unable to clinically determine” responses to queries? Some physicians may use this as an easy query “out” versus addressing the clinical question and we are seeing some repeat offenders. We started tracking and presenting these to our physician...Read More »
With the uncertainty remaining around the COVID-19 pandemic, ACDIS has made the decision to reschedule our annual conference. Originally scheduled for May 17-20, 2021, the conference will now take place October 25-28, 2021. It will remain at the Sheraton Hotel in Dallas...Read More »
