Formerly known as Recovery Audit Contractors, the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 created Recovery Auditors to identify Medicare overpayments and underpayments made on claims of healthcare services provided to Medicare beneficiaries.Read More »
Editor’s note: There are more than 40 local chapters and networking groups across the country and internationally, each led by a team of dedicated volunteers. To support these volunteers the...Read More »
The Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists(ACDIS) is proud to sponsor the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week. This week is a time to recognize CDI specialists for the critical role they perform within the healthcare...Read More »
A lot has changed in healthcare broadly and CDI specifically since the initial rollout of ICD-10-CM/PCS in 2015. From the advent of quality initiatives, to CDI’s expansion into other settings such as outpatient, to the evolution of clinical validation reviews, it seems that every day offers a...Read More »
As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Laurie Morelle, RN, MS, CCDS, manager of clinical documentation at Lifespan Corporate in Providence...Read More »
Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, will be presenting “What’s in a Review? Key Factors to Include and Exclude,” on Day 1 of the ACDIS conference.Read More »
It seems like we’ve been waiting and planning forever, but CDI Week 2017 is just around the corner. This year’s festivities officially take place September 18-22, but we know CDI specialists have been planning for much longer than that—and, for that matter, so...Read More »
