Debra Conrad filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District against Heartland Regional Medical Center, also known as Mosaic Life Care, alleging wrongful termination for raising concerns about fraudulent billing practices.Read More »
Q: A physician documented that a pregnant patient is obese, and the patient’s chart has a listed BMI score. Can we assign an ICD-10-CM BMI code in this instance or should this never be done for an obstetrics patient? Read More »
It’s a hot topic in the CDI world: who’s qualified to be a CDI professional? ACDIS as an organization holds that CDI is a broad table, welcoming professionals from diverse backgrounds including...Read More »
Surgical patients who received nutritional intervention during their hospital stay saw their 30-day readmission rate cut nearly in half, falling from 19.6% to 10.4%, a recent study published in the Journal of Parenteral and...Read More »
While ACDIS as an association holds the belief that CDI professionals come from a variety of backgrounds, each bringing unique skills and knowledge to the table and ultimately making the profession stronger, the required credentials and background for CDI professionals is always a hot topic. And...Read More »
The recently released FY 2019 ICD-10-CM update adds some codes to allow additional diagnoses to be reported while adding others for greater specificity.Read More »
The diagnosis of malnutrition has long been in the sights of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for audits and denials. In fact, just as recently as December 2017, the OIG found...Read More »
The term “dysphagia” has many synonyms used by providers in medical documentation. However, not all of these symptoms are able to describe, with specificity, the real problem so it can be translated into its corresponding code assignment.
