The North Carolina and South Carolina ACDIS chapters join forces for a group event on Friday, February 24, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia. Presentations feature former ACDIS Advisory Board members Fran Jurcak on preparing for the CCDS exam, Cheryl Ericson on the...Read More »
by Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, CDIP, COBGC
As CDI specialists and coders, it is our job to document and code appropriately for the care being provided. For CDI professionals working with physician practice settings, identifying documentation to support chronic care...Read More »
When can you see ACDIS Director Brian Murphy, and CDI experts Trey LaCharite, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS, and James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, all in the same place outside of the #ACDIS2017 conference? Just head on over to Nashville on Friday, January 27, to the Tennessee Hospital Association headquarters...Read More »
by Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS
One of the many coder/CDI obligations is to report noncompliant activities. Your employer’s compliance plan may direct you to report these noncompliant observations to the compliance officer or a compliance hotline.
Q:I can’t distinguish between “code first” and “in diseases classified elsewhere.” Both are used with manifestations and both can’t be sequenced as principal diagnosis, and both need etiology codes so what is the difference?
The 30-day all cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality outcome measure has been linked to hospital payments since the inception of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP) in fiscal year 2013. In February 2016, CMS announced that...Read More »
