The last few weeks have been mind-spinning. First and foremost, the 2017 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final rule, which includes Medicare payment system changes, coding changes, and MS-DRG shifts, was...Read More »
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Sep- tic Shock published new clinical guidelines for diagnosing sepsis, dubbed Sepsis-3, earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Although CMS chose not to adopt the new criteria in a...Read More »
The world didn’t end on October 1, 2015. After years of postponement, the proverbial “deal with the devil” made between CMS and the AMA to push ahead with ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation was a year’s grace period during which...Read More »
I am the CDI liaison and a DRG coordinator for Maine Medical Center in Portland, the largest hospital in the state with 637 beds. I chose my coding career path in high school, but I had no idea what I wanted to study in...Read More »
Robin Jones, RN, BSN, MHA/Ed, CCDS, has a true passion for CDI. She’s been in the field since 2004, beginning her career as a CDI specialist. A few years later, she was promoted to manager. Now she serves as the system director at Mercy Health in Cincinnati, where she oversees...Read More »
The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The...Read More »