The month of April promises a number of educational opportunities for CDI professionals across the country—from St. Louis, Missouri to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and from Elkridge, Maryland to Indianapolis, Indiana. Read More »
Another hospital lost its attempt to push through the backlog of denied claims appeals recently. Despite calling the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) bottleneck “grotesque,” the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a Cumberland County (North Carolina) hospital system’s request to force the...Read More »
A reminder to local chapter leaders to complete the ACDIS Local Chapter Agreement Form and return it to ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas via email at mvarnavas@acdis.org. Also, local chapter membership rosters will be due by the end of...Read More »
A reminder to local chapter leaders to complete the ACDIS Local Chapter Agreement Form and return it to ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas via email at mvarnavas@acdis.org.Read More »
An estimated 30% of Medicare payments are now tied to alternative payment models that reward the quality of care, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. And CMS hit this milestone nearly a year ahead of schedule, based on a timeline the administration developed in January 2015...Read More »
According to the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) 2015 fourth quarter RACTrac survey, which included nearly 750 hospitals, shows that 81% of complex denials in the fourth quarter were due to inpatient coding errors—falling between the second quarter (79%), and third quarter (83%)...Read More »
Nearly 700 rural hospitals are at risk of closure, according to a report from iVantage Analytics. Rural or critical access hospitals (CAHs) provide care to about 11.7 million people, employ 100,000 healthcare workers, and account for $277 billion in economic activity. Yet the report shows that...Read More »
Even though Promise Hospital of Ascension, a 54-bed transitional care hospital located in Gonzales, Louisiana, closed before the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) began auditing it for fraudulent Kwashiorkor claims, the agency found errors resulting in more than $450,000 in overpayments. In...Read More »
