Do you know a CDI professional who goes above and beyond their daily duties to advance the CDI profession, help their colleagues, and move the needle on CDI outcomes at your facility? Consider nominating them for one of this year’s ACDIS Achievement Awards.
The ACDIS advisory board is conducting an ongoing educational series on provider engagement. As part of this series, the board has developed a survey to gather data on the relationship between provider engagement efforts, provider buy-in, and their impact on CDI chart review productivity.Read More »
When planning a local chapter event, be sure to allow for 30 minutes or more if needed after the last educational presenter to have a chapter business meeting. This is particularly important in the early stages of the chapter’s inception as well as later when the group takes on ever more...Read More »
The ACDIS conference is a busy place, filled with education, networking, and fun. It’s easy for it to fly by in the blink of an eye. No matter how hectic the event becomes, one thing I’ll always make time for is meeting with the committee members I work with...Read More »
CMS announced that the Medicare website will soon be combining its eight separate Compare tools into one, standardized and simplified format, reported HealthLeaders Media. Currently, CMS uses a combination of the following platforms on https...Read More »
Physicians spend an average of 16 minutes and 14 seconds per patient encounter using electronic health records (EHRs), according to a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Of this time, 33% was chart review, 24% documentation, and 17% ordering functions were the...Read More »
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted unanimously to recommend hospitals receive a 3.3% raise in 2021.
CMS has already scheduled a 2.8% raise to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services, but MedPAC recommends that congress increase net payments even more....Read More »
Q: Our organization has implemented a workflow to identify social determinants of health (SDOH). The tool is provided to patients at annual visits and Medicare annual wellness visit. I feel that the question which would lead to the assignment of SDOH code Z55.9, Problems related to education and...Read More »