During its four-year existence, the National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership (NQFMAP) repeatedly suggested adding new measures or improvements to existing performance measures. This year, however,...Read More »

Q: If a consulting physician documents a diagnosis related to his or her specialty but the attending does not (instead simply documenting, “thank you for your assistance”) can the consulting physician’s documentation be used for coding purposes? My most experienced associate says we can...Read More »

Last week, ACDIS Director Brain Murphy told ACDIS members about their duty to vote for the new members of the ACDIS advisory board. The voting opened last week and will remain...Read More »