The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently proposed changes to sepsis coding and requested feedback from the public. As part of their ongoing work, the ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee is formulating a comment letter to submit on ACDIS’ behalf, leveraging the feedback from the...Read More »
Last week, ACDIS Editor Linnea Archibald and Associate Editor Carolyn Riel joined the Massachusetts ACDIS local chapter for their fall meeting at Boston Children’s Hospital. The event, taking cues from the location, focused on pediatric CDI concerns and was a great success.Read More »
Recently, we received a question from a member about risk factors associated with providers not taking queries seriously and providing less than helpful responses. The question really goes to the heart of physician engagement.
While surgical staplers are the top medical technology hazard for 2020, another hazard that hits closer to home for CDI professionals also landed a slot in the top 10, according to the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI). Coming in at number six, alarm, alert, and notification fatigue...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a proposal for changes to ICD-10-CM sepsis related codes after receiving numerous questions and comments about the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) published in 2016.
Despite critics claims that Medicare accountable care organizations’ (ACO) savings are “modest” at best, CMS said the programs resulted in nearly $...Read More »
Members know how valuable the networking, collaboration, resources, tools, and other ACDIS benefits are to their everyday CDI work. This month, we’re asking you to share the love and help us bring more CDI professionals into the ACDIS fold with the ACDIS Refer-a-Friend Challenge.Read More »