All short-term acute care facilities earn reimbursement from Medicare according to the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), right? And all outpatient facilities obtain reimbursement according to the rules in the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS), correct?
Every year during the third week of September, ACDIS celebrates CDI Week. This year’s festivities took place September 17–22 with the theme of “The Wild West: New Frontiers in CDI.” This year’s theme, chosen by the ACDIS members through a poll, aimed to represent the many ways the CDI profession...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Unfortunately, I have heard horror stories through the years where a hospital’s CDI specialists do not see eye-to-eye with their colleagues in coding; sometimes, though rarely, I’ve even heard of open hostility between these two...Read More »
By Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS
Sometimes I have a dream where every physician has completely and accurately documented the condition of congestive heart failure (CHF) in every record I review.
Then my alarm clock goes off. It’s time for me to get up, get dressed, go...Read More »
By Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
The year’s final AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS for 2017 includes 114 pages—similar to the page count for the final quarter of 2016. Needless to say, it contains a lot of information.
Let’s start the ball rolling by discussing the...Read More »
Jennifer Cooper, MHIIM, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, works at Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Texas. She is a leader of the Texas ACDIS Chapter which is in the re-building stages.Read More »
Documentation improvement efforts related to denials management and audit prevention feel a lot like a trip through Alice’s looking glass, too. The list of auditing agencies alone can make CDI specialists feel like they’ve fallen into an alternative universe:...Read More »
