From the “Oh, no!” files, here’s a story about a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) exam candidate who missed the exam because he went to the wrong address. The candidate scheduled his test in a large city that just happens to have two H&R...Read More »
Q:Is it a coder’s responsibility to properly sequence secondary diagnoses or is this a process that happens when the codes are transferred to the super bill? My concern is with making sure that heavily weighted secondary...Read More »
Cecilia Guardiola, RN, resigned from her position as corporate director of CDI after three months over concerns that Banner Health seemed to be billing Medicare improperly.Read More »
For the many hours of work and dedication, on behalf of the ACDIS membership and the CDI community, we want to say thank you to the members of all our boards and committees.Read More »
CMS’ quality measures for bundled payments fail to adequately measure the quality of healthcare, researchers at Johns Hopkins wrote in a recent editorial.Read More »
This week, ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas and CCDS Coordinator Penny Richards sat down in front of the camera to answer one of the most frequently asked CCDS question: How to apply...Read More »
ACDIS received an email from a member asking what the most common queried diagnoses are among CDI professionals. While we didn’t have the answer immediately, ACDIS ran a poll probing that exact question.Read More »
