ACDIS Guidance

In this year’s special supplement, we recap some of the learning highlights, fete our annual award winners, thank our exhibitors and sponsors,...Read More »

by Anny Pang Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS
Did you know the United States is the last country in the world to adopt ICD-10? Many...Read More »

It’s hard not to use some form of cliché to describe the advent of ICD-10-CM/PCS on October 1, 2015. “Implementation is on the horizon.” “It’s...Read More »

Last week (August 6-8) ACDIS Director Brian Murphy let me venture out in the world to attend the joint American Health Information Management...Read More »

The IPPS is updated every year and every year CMS adds new payment initiatives. If you’re not following these important updates you—...Read More »

by Linda Renee Brown, RN, MA, CCDS, CCS, CDIP

Four years ago, in these very pages, ...Read More »

Those following the episodic turns of the ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation saga witnessed another dramatic plot twist in the narrative this week when ...Read More »

by Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CCM
The typical pay for performance (P4P) program provides a bonus to healthcare providers...Read More »

Everyone wants a gold star. As a personal friend often puts it, “Wouldn’t it be nice to get a pat on the head and a cookie every once in a while...Read More »

by Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CCM

ICD-10 CM/PCS.  To some, the utterance of this classification system produces much...Read More »