Articles for July 26, 2018

CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

Note from the ACDIS Director: Fighting the good fight against arbitrary denials—Bravo, ACEP and MAG

July 26, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Denials & Appeals, Quality & Regulatory

By Brian Murphy

Recently, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) came out swinging against an insurer, Anthem. The pair of associations filed lawsuit against Anthem for its recently-implemented policy of denying medical...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

News: ECRI resuscitates healthcare clearinghouse data

July 26, 2018
News, Quality & Regulatory

The ECRI has announced that it will take over the now defunct National Guidelines Clearinghouse, which was shut down last week...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

Q&A: Encephalopathy “off baseline”

July 26, 2018
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: Our neurologist often documents encephalopathy for many of our patients. If an elderly patient came in with altered mental status (AMS), delirium, and has baseline dementia, can we code encephalopathy? What if the physician...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

News: Opioid deaths 70,000 higher than previous estimates between 1999-2015

July 26, 2018
Clinical & Coding, News

Because coroners and medical examiners did not specify the drugs contributing to death, potentially 70,000 opioid-related overdose deaths from 1999-2015 were excluded from national figures.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

News: CMS may restart ACA risk adjustment payments, unfreezing $10.4 billion

July 26, 2018
News, Quality & Regulatory

Roughly two weeks after CMS suspended $10.4 billion in risk adjustment payments to insurers, the agency signaled last week that it may reverse course.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

ACDIS update: Newest polling questions seeks to shed light on query responses

July 26, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

A couple weeks ago when ACDIS received a question about queries answered with “unable to determine.” So, ACDIS posted it as a poll to the website.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

ACDIS update: Meet the 2019 Conference Committee

July 26, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Education

It’s hard to believe that it’s already time to gear up for the 12th annual ACDIS national conference in Kissimmee, Florida, May 20-23, 2019. Nonetheless, planning is indeed already underway. The call for Conference Committee...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 33

Local chapter update: Five tips for identifying new leaders

July 26, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Education

Last week, we covered five tips for identifying new chapter leaders. This week, we’ll pick up where we left off with number six, which is: ask.Read More »

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