Physician advisors serve a variety of purposes beyond documentation improvement, including assisting case management, utilization review, quality, and coding departments, among other assignments, ...Read More »
Risk adjustment requires coding and CDI professionals to work together as one team to ensure the capture of the most appropriate risk score for each patient.
If you’re looking for ways to expand your CDI department into outpatient settings and services—all of which can impact risk scores—...Read More »
Q:The coders at my facility have stated auto linking congestive heart failure (CHF), hypertension (HTN), and chronic kidney disease (CKD) to the combination code without any documentation of CHF “due to” HTN. There is no documentation of hypertensive heart disease...Read More »
CDI Week is right around the corner. To help you celebrate, we've compiled a helpful list of resources and where to find them on the new ACDIS site. To share pictures or ideas for celebrations, please contact ACDIS Editor Katy Rushlau at krushlau@hcpro.com...Read More »
Physician engagement is a lot like football, or so says Richard E. Wild, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer for the Atlanta Region Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). “You can be a great quarterback, but if you have no team backing you up and supporting you, you’re...Read More »
The importance of CDI involvement in denial management cannot be stressed enough. Join associate attorney, and returning ACDIS speaker, Sarah Mendiola, Esq., LPN, CPC tomorrow afternoon for her session, “Completing the Circle: The Importance of CDI Specialist Participation in...Read More »
We are only two days until the core ACDIS team boards a Delta flight from Boston to Atlanta for the 2016 ACDIS conference! We cannot wait to connect with all of your nearly 2,000 attendees!
If you need assistance prior to the event please call our customer service team for assistance 877-...Read More »
If you’ve ever read an issue of HCPro’s flagship newsletter Medical Records Briefing … if you’ve ever picked up an issue of Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies and turned to the column “Clinically Speaking”… if you’ve been a...Read More »
