New research published in the Annals of Surgery shows that high-risk general surgery patients have greater survival rates at major teaching hospitals than at non-teaching hospitals, according to HealthLeaders Media.
The 30-day mortality rate for these high-risk patients...Read More »
Due to nearly 1,300 cases and 26 deaths of e-cigarette or vaping product use associated with lung injury (EVALI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new official ICD-10-CM coding guidelines for capturing EVALI. These guidelines come close on the tail of the CDC’s...Read More »
The ACDIS Regulatory Committee exists to review regulatory policy, coding, and clinical updates, comment to agencies on the behalf of ACDIS, and provide summary, interpretation, and analysis to the ACDIS membership.
As mentioned last week, the Committee is hard at work drafting a comment...Read More »
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an analysis stating that roughly 25% of the $3.8 trillion spent annually in the U.S. on healthcare can be characterized as waste.Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently proposed changes to sepsis coding and requested feedback from the public. As part of their ongoing work, the ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee is formulating a comment letter to submit on ACDIS’ behalf, leveraging the feedback from the...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a proposal for changes to ICD-10-CM sepsis related codes after receiving numerous questions and comments about the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) published in 2016.
CMS plans to hold a call to discuss the MS-DRG CC/MCC comprehensive analysis discussed in the fiscal year (FY) 2020 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed and final rules on Tuesday, October 8, 2-3 p.m. eastern.
The call will include a review of the method used to determine...Read More »
Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals this week in the newest round of readmission penalties, according to Kaiser Health News. Medicare estimates that the cuts will cost hospitals $563 million over a year.
Of the 3,129 general hospitals evaluated in the Hospital Readmission...Read More »
