by Cynthia Raymond, RN, MSN, CPC, COC, CCDS, ACM-RN
CDI specialist’s work can often be tapered down to two categories of work. One category is concurrent stay reviews where CDI makes efforts to ensure that the medical record is accurate and compliant before final coding. The...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published ICD-10-CM Official Coding and Reporting Guidelines for COVID-19, reported Revenue Cycle Advisor. These new guidelines are effective April 1 through September 30, 2020.
A clinical bulletin recently published by the American College of Cardiology reported that the case fatality rate for patients with COVID-19 who have...Read More »
CMS has published the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Rate Announcement, which finalizes the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D payment methodologies for CY 2021. CMS says that the announcement addresses comments received on Parts I...Read More »
We are trying to reduce the number of queries to providers at our hospital because we know they are overwhelmed. The CDI staff is only sending queries if there is a change in DRG, SOI/ROM, or if the diagnosis is listed in the2020 ACDIS...Read More »
Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CRC, CCS, is the CDI manager at Asante in Medford, Oregon, and she is a member of the Northwest ACDIS local chapter.Read More »