CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 10

ACDIS update: Don’t let CDI trauma reviews traumatize you

March 7, 2019
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

“These were the two most educated trauma coding speakers I have heard, and I’ve been doing this for 13 years,” said one attendee of last year’s trauma CDI webinar of speakers Nicole Fox, MD, MPH, FACS, CPE, and Kristie Perry, RN, MHSA, CCDS, CCS.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 10

Conference conversations: If you’re in a silo, every day feels like scaling Mt. Everest

March 7, 2019
Ask ACDIS, Education

Megan Cortazzo, MD, will present “End the CDI Silo: How Collaborative Programs Improve Revenue, Quality, and Physician Engagement,” on Day 2 of the ACDIS conference. Cortazzo is the medical director of CDI and Health Information Management (HIM) at University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 10

Local chapter update: Local and ACDIS national leadership collaboration

March 7, 2019
ACDIS Guidance, Education

Section II.a of the agreement form describes the collaborative relationship between ACDIS national and chapter leadership.Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 13, Issue 9

Meet a Member: A desire to be an agent of change led her to CDI

February 25, 2020

Ashley Comiskey, MSN, RN, CCDS, is the facility CDI supervisor at Baptist Health Paducah in Kentucky, and she’s the treasurer for the Kentucky ACDIS local chapter. She’s been in the CDI field for two and a half years and will be celebrating three years in October.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 9

Note from the ACDIS Director: Providence Health/J.A. Thomas lawsuit inching closer to resolution

February 28, 2019
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

By Brian Murphy

Developments continue in a $188.1 million lawsuit against Renton, Washington-based Providence Health & Services, with a judge presiding over the case requesting additional documentation from both parties to determine if the suit will continue or be dismissed...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 9

News: Physician burnout drops 10.5 points after spike

February 28, 2019
News, Education

The rate of physician burnout has dropped 10.5 percentage points over the past three years but remains at an alarming level, according to research published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings last week.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 9

News: HCA accused of fraudulently billing inpatient services for ED patients

February 28, 2019
Clinical & Coding, News, Quality & Regulatory

A former Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) nurse accused the hospital chain of fraudulently billing the federal government for services at Regional Medical Center in San Jose, California, to inflate reimbursement.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 9

News: Healthgrades names America’s best hospitals for 2019

February 28, 2019
News, Quality & Regulatory

Healthgrades released its annual list of “America’s Best Hospitals,” using clinical outcomes to identify the top 5% of hospitals nationwide.Read More »

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