News: Baylor wins $61.8 million FCA case over alleged upcoding

August 15, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 34
Clinical & Coding, Denials & Appeals, News

Providence Health & Services wasn’t the only one under fire from Integra Med Analytics. The firm also filed a suit alleging that Baylor Scott...Read More »

News: FY 2020 OPPS proposed rule released

August 15, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 34
Clinical & Coding, News

CMS recently released the calendar year (CY) 2020 MPFS...Read More »

News: Cooperating Parties approve FY 2020 ICD-10-CM guidelines

August 15, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 34
Clinical & Coding, News

The four Cooperating Parties recently approved the FY...Read More »

Q&A: Should acute respiratory failure be the principal diagnosis?

August 15, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 34
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: I just had a case at work where the patient arrived in respiratory...Read More »

Diagnosis clarifications in the OP setting

August 14, 2019
Clinical & Coding, Outpatient CDI, Education

With special guest James Manz, MD, a consultant in spine and neurological surgery with the Mayo Clinic Health System in northwest Wisconsin. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott,...

News: FY 2020 IPPS Final Rule published, CC/MCC downgrades postponed

August 8, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 33
Clinical & Coding, News, Quality & Regulatory

After months of...Read More »

News: Vascular events, infections, cancers responsible for most diagnostic error harm

August 1, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 32
Clinical & Coding, News

Misdiagnoses in treatments for “big three” conditions—cardiovascular events, cancers, and infections—comprise 74% of all serious harms from...Read More »

Q&A: Educating providers on root operations

August 1, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 32
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Education

Q: I’ve heard that provider education should not include lectures on the...Read More »

ACDIS Mailbag: Listener questions

July 31, 2019
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

With special guest Dawn R. Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, the CDI manager of education at Ardent Health Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN,...

Q&A: Sepsis criteria conundrum

July 30, 2019
CDI Blog - Volume 12, Issue 106
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Denials & Appeals

Q: Which sepsis criteria should we use? It seems like we get denials quoting every criteria set and...Read More »

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