Revenue integrity is still the new kid on the block as far as hospital departments and roles are concerned, so it’s not surprising that more than half of respondents to the 2018 State of Revenue Integrity...Read More »
Although there are more than 40 ACDIS local chapters and networking groups in operation throughout the country, there may not be one in your particular state or geographic region.Read More »
By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
Step one in the prospective process, is for the CDI specialist to pull an initial worklist from the patient population lists within each office. Which offices covered, and the frequency of visits...Read More »
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the reduction in hospital readmissions in recent years all but disappears when researchers factor in the increase in non-...Read More »
When the IPPS became law in the 1980s, freestanding psychiatric hospitals were exempt. Like some cancer centers today, psychiatric facilities were not paid based on DRGs—that is, until the...Read More »
Documentation of developmental issues is critical because the goal is accurately diagnosing each child and focusing appropriate resources toward the maximization of the child’s abilities. To accomplish this goal, the integrity of each patient’s chart with accurate and specific diagnoses is...Read More »
The critical access hospital (CAH) was born out of the effort to protect access to healthcare in rural areas and ensure a hospital could remain viable despite the low and variable volumes that come along with the hospital’s location. A CAH is a hospital...Read More »
This morning, healthcare futurist Joe Flower took the stage to kick off this year’s ACDIS conference in San Antonio by sharing a robust vision of healthcare’s future—from technological innovation that leads to integrations of care from providers to payers to patients.
