As of October 1, 2018, the fiscal year (FY) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) took effect, along with a whole slew of code changes and CC/MCC updates. That wasn’t the only change for CDI, though. And that’s what the...Read More »
A preliminary study published in the JAMA found that a new point-of-care troponin assay can safely rule out AMI in 15 minutes in a large proportion of patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary...Read More »
Auditors could be able to extrapolate findings to larger pools of claims, according to a CMS proposed rule. An auditor could pull 30 claims, find a total overpayment of $1,000, which would mean an average...Read More »
Starting with the January/February 2019 edition of the CDI Journal, contributing writers who have a 700-1,500-word article published in the Journal will be granted one CCDS CEU, at the discretion of the ACDIS editorial team.Read More »
While ACDIS members are used to hearing ACDIS Director Brian Murphy every other week on ACDIS Radio, Murphy recently did a stint on another industry podcast, called Not Elsewhere Classified...Read More »
Will CDI professionals’ salaries have increased since 2017? Will the trend of role diversification continue in 2018? Will this year’s salary survey show CDI professionals more satisfied with the level of work they perform for the compensation they receive?Read More »
