ACDIS Guidance

By Linnea Archibald

Though any CDI specialist will tell you this profession isn’t about money, a facility’s reimbursement can...Read More »

Jennifer Cooper, MHIIM, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, works at Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Texas. She is a leader of the Texas...Read More »

No, we don’t mean the common table spice. The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is distributed by TMF Health...Read More »

By Jocelyn E. Murray, RN, CCDS
What are the similarities and differences between CDI audits and coding compliance audits? Are both...Read More »

By Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS
Sometimes I have a dream where every physician has completely and accurately documented the...Read More »

By Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
The year’s final AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS for 2017 includes 114 pages—similar to the...Read More »

All short-term acute care facilities earn reimbursement from Medicare according to the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), right? And all...Read More »

FEATURES
8 Part of the picture: Measuring more than CMI

17 Pass the PEPPER: Benchmark CDI efforts and defend against...Read More »

ACDIS celebrated its 10th birthday last month—not coincidentally the anniversary of CMS DRGs also. “I’ve never hesitated to say that’s partly why...Read More »

by Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS
COPD and Pneumonia
The requirement for code...Read More »