The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) includes a wealth of information regarding MS-DRG outliers that might otherwise go completely unnoticed. That’s what happened at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. until the 15-hospital health system began analyzing its...Read More »
Nine hospitals in seven states will pay the United States more than $9.4 million combined to resolve claims that they overcharged Medicare between 2000 and 2008, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release....Read More »
ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald sends out “missed connections” emails with questions from Council members on a regular basis. Anyone with experience related to one of the questions was invited to respond and Archibald connected them with the question-asker....Read More »
Q:I am looking for help posing queries regarding the specific link between diabetes and conditions typically considered diabetic complications. Should we always query the physician regarding the link between the presenting symptom and the diabetes?
Next week more than 500 CDI specialists from around the country will meet at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago for the 3rd Annual ACDIS Conference. This year’s conference features more than 30 speakers and offers three distinct tracks of programs from which to choose. The main conference...Read More »
The deadline to fill out ACDIS’ 2022 CDI Salary Survey is tonight, November 14, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. eastern! The results will be made available for all ACDIS members in early 2023 to use for salary proposals, job searching,...Read More »
The ACDIS CDI Work Group is pleased to present the results of its first CDI staffing survey. The results are based on approximately 85 responses from CDI department managers on a wide range of questions concerning CDI department staffing.
The goal of the survey is to help CDI managers...Read More »
Laura Hartsock, RHIT, CCS, CHC, CCDS, medical documentation director, north central, at Mercy in Springfield, Missouri, asks: “I would like input from other hospitals on how they calculate the number of CDI FTEs needed based on the volume of inpatient discharges? We have an old...Read More »
