The ACDIS team is busy planning the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI, which takes place November 14-15 in Austin, Texas. The agenda is finalized, but the call for poster and lightning round presentations is still open. Those...Read More »
The annual cost of physician burnout is conservatively estimated at $4.6 billion, research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows.Read More »
Private health plans paid hospitals 241% of what Medicare would have in 2017, up from 236% in 2015, according to a new study from RAND Corporation. Though the study found that prices paid to hospitals by private...Read More »
Paola Dees, MD, is presenting a poster titled “Take 5 to improve satisfaction of resident CDI education” at the 2019 ACDIS conference. Dees is a pediatric hospitalist and medical director of utilization management, at Johns Hopkins All...Read More »
The temperature here, just north of Boston, is hovering around 40 degrees. There was talk of possible snow flurries this week. Right now, it’s gray, misting. The wind is blowing.
At the ACDIS main office more than a dozen staff gathered around the table...Read More »
Essence Healthcare Inc., a health maintenance organization (HMO) with a Medicare contract based in Missouri and Southern Illinois, submitted incorrect claims for acute stroke and major depressive disorder that did not comply with federal requirements, resulting in $158,000 in overpayments to...Read More »
