The new ACDIS Career Center allows you to upload your resume, browse open positions, and sign up for alerts about new jobs specific to your criteria. If you’re looking to hire, we have job posting options (discounted for ACDIS members) as well as the ability to browse our resume database. ...Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is concerned about the documentation and coding reduction, changes to disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, and the implementation of many of CMS’s quality programs detailed in the CMS IPPS Proposed Rule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, according to a ...Read More »
Recovery Auditor medical record requests and automated and complex denials all fell slightly in the first quarter of 2016, as did the average number of medical record requests per hospital, which decreased slightly since the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the latest RACTrac report...Read More »
CMS issued a final rule last week to revamp the way it pays for tests under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS). Now starting January 1, 2018, CMS will base CLFS payments on the weighted median amount paid by private payers for the same services. Providers are hopeful that these new...Read More »
On Thursday, July 28, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, CDI and coding professionals from across the New England region will join together for a full-day educational event. On the agenda are sessions about engaging physicians in CDI, a panel discussion featuring documentation improvement from both the...Read More »
The MS-DRG 884, organic disturbances and mental retardation, received a request for a title change, in the 2017 IPPS proposed rule released by CMS, to organic disturbances and intellectual disability to...Read More »
