Next week more than 500 CDI specialists from around the country will meet at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago for the 3rd Annual ACDIS Conference. This year’s conference features more than 30 speakers and offers three distinct tracks of programs from which to choose. The main conference...Read More »
The ACDIS CDI Work Group is pleased to present the results of its first CDI staffing survey. The results are based on approximately 85 responses from CDI department managers on a wide range of questions concerning CDI department staffing.
The goal of the survey is to help CDI managers...Read More »
In April, CMS held an ICD-10 conference for software vendors, billing services, and clearinghouses to discuss the ICD-10 and Version 5010 transitions. The goal of the meeting was to openly discuss implementation issues such as testing and resources that to help make the transition easier. The...Read More »
Q: Payers have been pushing back when a diagnosis appears in the discharge summary and not in the chart. Can the physician add a late entry or addendum into the medical record by way of a progress note or an addition to a discharge summary...Read More »
Shortly after releasing its Clinical Documentation Improvement Toolkit in April, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) released its Guidance for Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in the May issue of the Journal of AHIMA.
CMS has been holding a number of open forum calls regarding its Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) programs. Dubbed “Nationwide RAC 101 Calls” these sessions covered the basics of RAC reviews, each focusing on a different provider area.
The first call on April 28, intended for all acute...Read More »
Effective January 1, 2011, CMS will start to accept up to 25 codes for secondary diagnoses. The change, listed in a March 2010 MedLearn Matters article and also listed in the...Read More »
CDI specialists are getting too tied up with the minutiae of ICD-9-CM coding and DRG optimization instead of focusing on the overall clinical picture of the patient and the integrity of the medical record, says Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI, an independent...Read More »
