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Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS, principals at Pinson and Tang, LLC answered these questions after their April 10, 2018...Read More »

Q: I have a question about Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic...Read More »

Q: Our coders are having trouble determining how much clinical evidence to...Read More »

As part of the annual CDI Week celebration, ACDIS conducts several interviews with industry experts surrounding topics covered in the...Read More »

Q: Have you, or would you ever, send queries for an ethical reason? Meaning,...Read More »

Q: I'm in charge of a coding audit for our department for the first time and...Read More »

Q: The risk adjustment index is still not very clear to me. What are indexed...Read More »

Q: Our coding department doesn't have a standard query process. How can...Read More »

Vinita Magoon, DO, JD, MBA, MPH, CMQ, presented a poster at the 2018 ACDIS Conference entitled “Using denial data to improve outpatient...Read More »

Jennifer Oetinger, RN, BSN, has created a poster entitled “Spinal surgery: Interpretation, opportunities, and coding.” Janet Barber, MBA, BSN, RN...Read More »