A recent Office of the Inspector General report found PacifiCare of Texas received $115 million in CMS overpayments. The OIG reviewed 100 sample...Read More »
Unplanned readmissions may by overestimated by as much as 25%, according to a study by physicians in the neurological surgery and orthopedic...Read More »
The 2012 CDI Salary Survey garnered more than 900 responses. In general, the results mirror those from previous years. (ACDIS members can read the...Read More »
Observation services increased 34% from 2007 to 2009, “from an average of 86.9 observation stay events per 1,000 inpatient admissions per month in...Read More »
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking nominations for its ICD-10-CM/PCS Conversion of Quality Indicators (QIs)...Read More »
The proposed rule changes for the Conditions of Participations (CoP) were recently finalized. They include some relief regarding rules for...Read More »
On April 17, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule to delay the ICD-10 code set implementation date from...Read More »
New guidelines published in the May 2012 Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics represent a consensus statement of the American Academy...Read More »
CMS recently posted two separate sets of data that provide nationwide statistics on its Recovery Auditor program. The first update contains...Read More »
Over a nine-year period, from 2001 to 2010, physicians increased billing of higher level evaluation and management (E/M) codes in all types of E/M...Read More »
