Articles for March 3, 2011

CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 5

Director's Note: Hilton sold out, rooms available nearby

March 3, 2011
ACDIS Guidance

Nearly 550 CDI professionals have registered to attend the 4th Annual ACDIS Conference in Orlando, April 7–8. That means more of your peers will be available to network with, share experiences with, and learn from. It also means that those who have already made their reservations have booked up...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 5

News: Latest PEPPER reports released

March 3, 2011
News

By Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI

The Fourth Quarter PEPPER reports are available and there are a host of new CDI-related target areas including:
  • Excisional debridement
  • Ventilator support
  • Transient ischemic
    • ...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 5

News: Medicare 'sting' charges more than 100 defendants including doctors and nurses

March 3, 2011
News

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) called it the largest healthcare fraud sting in history. On February 17, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force charged 111 defendants in nine cities, including doctors, nurses, healthcare company owners and executives, and others, for alleged...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 5

News: California facilities struggle with allegations of inappropriately billing for kwashiorkor

March 3, 2011
News

If the data is true, the population of a couple of concentrated areas in California suffer from kwashiorkor syndrome, a type of malnutrition typically seen among children in third-world countries, according to...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 5

Q&A: Re-billing an account after a late query response

March 3, 2011
Ask ACDIS

Q: AHIMA’s 2008 practice brief, “Managing an Effective Query Process,” appears to allow the initiation of post-bill queries as a result of an audit or other internal monitor. Historically we believed that a query completed after the initial...Read More »