ACDIS update: Last month on the ACDIS blog

We know your CDI day is already busy. Between work and educational pursuits, you may not have had a chance to visit the ACDIS Blog recently. So, we did some of the work of sorting through last month’s posts to bring you some highlights. Now, you have the info you’re looking for !

Here’s some things you may have missed in the last month:

• A two-part series by Amber Sterling, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Jana Armstrong, RHIA, CPC, on the topic of coding and CDI’s effect on revenue integrity (Click here for part 2)
• A note from Boot Camp Instructor Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC, about the 2018 IPPS Final Rule changes
• A three-part series from James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, about the new ICD-10-CM/PCS codes which took effect on October 1 (Click here for part 2 and here for part 3)
• A Q&A with Boot Camp Instructor Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, about coding mixed cardiogenic and septic shock
• The third installation of ACDIS Director Brian Murphy’s “Case for CDI” series (Click here for part 1 and here for part 2)
• A post from Dr. Kennedy about MACRA changes
• A Q&A with Shea Lunt, RHIA, CPC, CPMA, PMP, about acceptable documentation for HCCs
• A post from Dr. Kennedy about HCC basics

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