by Linnea Archibald
Those on the ACDIS team know that I am a huge data nerd. Each month, part of my job is to analyze ACDIS’ website data to identify our membership’s needs and interests, helping us shape our offerings and better serve members’ needs. While talking to members one...Read More »
The healthcare sector shed 502,000 jobs in total in 2020 as a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing shutdown of nonessential services, HealthLeaders Media reported.
by Carolyn Riel
While the CDI industry has evolved slowly away from strictly financial focuses to a more holistic record integrity approach that encompasses all aspects of the healthcare story, nearly 31% of CDI professionals still say that financial metrics take precedence over...Read More »
55% of Black patients with both COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes also presented with diabetic ketoacidosis—a serious condition that can lead to coma or death—according to a study published in the Journal...Read More »
“We found this gold mine, and it was data analytics,” said Ashley Telisky, DO, MBA, CDI physician advisor at Albany (New York) Medical Center, during ACDIS’ fall 2020 online event Curtain Call: Behind the Scenes of Star-Studded CDI Programs, where she...Read More »
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) will be conducting a second round of audits to determine whether acute care hospitals are being inappropriately reimbursed for outpatient services provided to inpatients, according to an update to its...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Most CDI programs came into being with the primary focus of financial improvement and reimbursement accuracy: capturing CCs/MCCs to shift the MS-DRG placement to one with a higher relative weight. The impacts of these efforts were straightforward to demonstrate,...Read More »
