If you attended the ACDIS conference in Atlanta last year, you might have been among those lucky enough to catch Shannon McCall, director of HCPro’s Certified Coder Boot Camp® programs face off against ACDIS’ CDI education coordinator Laurie Prescott in a head-to-head, heavy-weight champion of...Read More »
Okemena Ewoterai used to take a folder off a shelf and peer through the papers inside looking for hints—scraps of stories that could lead her to a better understanding of why a particular patient needed to be in her hospital. When she found them, Ewoterai would pull out a piece...Read More »
The ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting for the 2017 fiscal year (effective 10/1/2016) added a new directive. In Section I, subsection A, item 19, states that:
Queries are definitely not what they used to be. When I first started as a CDI specialist, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, the query process was a muddy exercise in creative writing.Read More »
CDI specialists can pretty much come from any background in the medical field—from physicians, to nurses, to coders, and everything in between. While CDI specialists generally have the same day-to-day workflow (reviewing charts and sending queries), a specialist’s background prior to coming to...Read More »
by Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer
The 30-day all cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality outcome measure has been linked to hospital payments since the inception of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP) in fiscal year 2013....Read More »
I attended nursing school at a four-year university that included classes in nursing history and continuum of care. Both courses required review of diversification in healthcare. Since the dawn of modern nursing, there have been controversies...Read More »
I’m excited to share some good news this week. Due to popular demand, ACDIS has created a new boot camp devoted to the CCDS credential. In two days, the class will prepare participants for all the areas the examination covers, how best to study for it, and even day-of-test tips to ensure you...Read More »
