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 »
A few weeks ago, I was giving a presentation to a group of surgeons. I was talking with them about CDI, which as you might imagine is as near and dear to the heart of the surgeon as mindfulness is to Daffy Duck. My comments engendered a...Read More »
