As you read last week, the theme for CDI Week 2017 will be “The Wild West: New Frontiers in CDI.” Though the theme offers numerous opportunities for fun CDI Week activities (cowboy hats and boots, anyone?), the theme also speaks volumes about the CDI industry...Read More »
More than 585,000 eligible clinicians could be excluded from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requirements due to proposed changes to the program’s low-volume threshold, ...Read More »
Appeals cost providers roughly $118 per claim—extrapolated nationwide that amounts to as much as $8.6 billion in administrative costs necessary to recover initially denied claims, according to a new report from Change Healthcare,...Read More »
Q: If a patient is admitted for anemia related to a malignancy and is treated only for anemia, the principal diagnosis goes to the malignancy. I understand that the malignancy was the root cause of the condition making it the principal...Read More »
Did you come to the 10th annual ACDIS conference this year? Did you sadly miss it and wish you could have gone? Well, every year, the ACDIS leadership team pulls together the highlights for a special publication focused on the event. This being ACDIS’ 10th anniversary, the...Read More »
CDI specialists reviewing outpatient observation records are “essentially playing the clinical detective,” said Seth Kirschner, senior manager at the Claro Group, LLC, in Chicago, on the April 19 episode of ACDIS Radio, “...Read More »
Since you need 30 continuing education credits (CEUs) every two years to maintain your CCDS certification, you may find yourself scrambling for opportunities. In actuality, it’s fairly straightforward to receive CEUs, but you need to know where to get them first.Read More »
