Articles for October 25, 2018

CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

Note from the Associate Editorial Director: Thanks for awesome October events

October 25, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Education

By Melissa Varnavas

I was sitting with my mother Saturday, October 20, in her sunny second-floor kitchen going over some bills when my phone buzzed.

“Who’s that?” she asked, worried she was keeping me from other plans.

I flipped the phone over to find a message from...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

News: HAC rates down, AHRQ says

October 25, 2018
News, Quality & Regulatory

The rate of most HACs continued to decline from 2014 to 2016, according to the latest national scorecard released by the AHRQ.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

News: Dallas clinicians imprisoned for role in $11 million Medicare fraud scheme

October 25, 2018
News, Quality & Regulatory

Two physicians and three nurses were sentenced last week in a $11.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for home health services, the OIG...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

News: HHS awards $293 million to primary healthcare clinicians and students

October 25, 2018
News, Education

Nearly $300 million in awards could help provide scholarships and loan repayment services for healthcare providers in an effort to expand the workforce, according to a press...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

Q&A: Physician engagement tips

October 25, 2018
Ask ACDIS, Education

Q: Can you provide some tips on how to educate physicians and encourage them to respond to your queries? My hospital is a teaching facility and the system is set up so that nurses can’t even call an attending directly. In most...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

Journal excerpt: Understand why PSI 90 CDI reviews matter now

October 25, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

By Cheryl Manchenton, RN, BSN, CCDS

If you search for Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 90 (Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite) in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Version 7.0 software released in October 2017, you won’t find it.

PSI-90 is...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

ACDIS update: 2018 webinars offer multifaceted CDI education

October 25, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Education

As we approach the end of 2018, ACDIS is looking back over its webinar offerings from this year. Starting in January, ACDIS has offered nine webinars covering a wide variety of CDI topics (and we’re planning one more for December on the new malnutrition criteria with Richard Pinson, MD, and...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 12, Issue 51

ACDIS update: New white paper examines how to review a medical record

October 25, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Education

To help CDI professionals in this central piece of their work, the ACDIS Advisory Board has published a new white paper titled “How to conduct a medical record review.” The paper defines a recommended process for medical...Read More »

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