Documentation improvement staff often struggle with principal diagnosis selection. A clear understanding of the definition of principal diagnosis...Read More »
The quarterly reports issued by the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER)contain large amounts of data on how a...Read More »
As part of the first Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Nancy Rae Ignatowicz, RN, MBA, CCDS, system manager of clinical documentation for Provena Health in Frankfort...
“CMS faces challenges incorporating resource use and quality measures for physician feedback reports that are meaningful, actionable, and reliable...Read More »
Trying to convince physicians that good documentation has “something in it for them” is a battle that CDI specialists fight each day. But a new...Read More »
Out of 88 claims for MS-DRG 246 (percutaneous cardiovascular procedure with drug-eluting stent with MCC or 4+ vessels/stents with a length of stay...Read More »
It started with two courageous coders who knew the query process where they worked at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Inc., in Baltimore,...Read More »
Healthcare providers in the A/B MAC jurisdiction 1 have a problem—a paid claims error rate that’s nearly twice the national average for Part B...Read More »
