Many CDI professionals diligently perform the day-to-day tasks of documentation improvement. And there are those who carry out this duty and so much more. The 2010 CDI Professional of the Year award and the two awards for Recognition of CDI Professional Achievement honor these...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas, CPC, ACDIS associate director
In the fall of 2009 Leah Taylor, RN, CCDS, and Jennifer Love, RN, BA, CCDS, president and vice president of the North Carolina ACDIS chapter respectively, challenged members of their local chapter to earn...Read More »
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 »
