The 2017 ACDIS Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey uncovered a number of tidbits about the query process, but the survey also probed the state of remote CDI programs. While 40.8% of respondents cited having some sort of remote CDI option, 36.03% of respondents reported having some sort of...Read More »
by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
Many CDI and coding professionals let out a sigh of relief when the First Quarter 2017 edition of AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS arrived—it’s only 52 pages long, a novella compared to the voluminous tomes of previous editions. I looked at...Read More »
By Susan Wallace, MEd, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, FAHIMA
Believe it or not, the Federal Register is one of the best crystal balls to foresee the future of CDI.Read More »
ACDIS will accept as many CDI-related CEUs from other organizations as you wish to submit with one exception: If an event awards more than 10 CEUs, ACDIS will only accept 10. For example, if you attend an AHIMA training session and it awards 15 CEUs, we...Read More »
My husband swears he had SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). It happened on an extended weekend trip to Maine, just a few months after the south China outbreak that killed more than 700. He suffered through our trip, and when neither antibiotics nor...Read More »
You may be wondering why so many CDI departments are expanding their review processes to include consideration of how CMS quality measures will be affected by claims data.Read More »
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) allows CMS to penalize hospitals with excess readmissions, as written in Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act, which added section 1886(q) to the Social Security Act. Specifically, the...Read More »
About 41% of CDI programs currently review medical records for quality improvement items, according to an online ACDIS membership poll. Although CMS implemented the VBP reimbursement model as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2011, many CDI programs have only recently started...Read More »
