Amid the many recent COVID-19 coding updates, it may have been easy to overlook Medicare’s new COVID-19 treatments add-on payment (NCTAP). The NCTAP is applied in addition to the MS-DRG payment for inpatient cases.
The ACDIS Regulatory Committee has released insight for the NCTAP for use...Read More »
Every January, ACDIS asks its members to participate in a short survey to share their thoughts about membership benefits. It’s an opportunity for members to share what they love about ACDIS and what they wish ACDIS might provide its members in the coming year.
Everyone has a story to share. Perhaps you’ve come to the CDI profession by way of a career in physical therapy or transitioned into CDI from coding after having been a foreign medical graduate. Perhaps you recently got permission to create a CDI-specific email newsletter targeted to...Read More »
ACDIS national is always happy to publish chapter newsletters, “save the date” flyers, or other documents to your local chapter or networking group page on the website. However, we do prefer documents saved in PDF format to streamline the process of...Read More »
This past year has brought to light many of the ills of our society, highlighting needed changes on almost all levels of healthcare, societal norms, and issues of social justice. Together, we look in the rearview mirror with a collective sigh, a sadness and...Read More »
This month, CMS begins auditing a sample of hospitals for compliance with price transparency rule. The rule, effective January 1, 2021, requires all United States hospitals to provide publicly available charge information about services offered. While there has been much pushback from hospitals...Read More »
While researches found no detection of the COVID-19 virus in brain tissue samples, they did find abnormalities in 10 of 13 deceased patients studied, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Implementation of two historic rules set to implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the Cures Act, have been postponed until April 5, 2021. In March, the...Read More »