Clinical validation is definitely a hot topic in CDI right now. According to the 2017 CDI Industry Survey (which will be made available during CDI Week), 85.13% of respondents sent at least one to five clinical validation queries in the last month. Yet, only 41.81% have a policy governing these...Read More »
It’s hard to believe that the 10th annual ACDIS national conference is already but a mere memory—memories cherished and employed. Nevertheless, planning for the 2018 event is already underway. The call for Conference Committee volunteers went out in July and more than 100 ACDIS...Read More »
Next Friday, August 11, ACDIS Editor Linnea Archibald and I will head down to Newton, Massachusetts for the third-annual joint ACDIS/AHIMA New England CDI Symposium. The leaders of the MaHIMA, NYHIMA, and MA ACDIS have met for months to develop a comprehensive...Read More »
Which types of clinicians will get “special status” from CMS for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) data submissions this year? CMS recently updated its website with a tool (available online) providers can use to check to see whether they are...Read More »
Researchers at NYU Langone found that many informal consultations between referrers and radiologists were captured incompletely or inadequately in the electronic health record (EHR), according to...Read More »
Although the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS was fairly smooth, two years later billing and coding experts say that, in most cases, the codes are not being put to their intended use.Read More »
Q: We recently reviewed a troubling case related to sepsis core extractions which revealed that the patient did not have sepsis and the physicians did not document sepsis as there was no bacterial infection. The CDI specialist, however...Read More »
