ACDIS continues to team up with local chapter leaders to help them provide free educational opportunities for the chapter and networking communities across the country.
Today, ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas will host the second in a series of free lunch-and-learn...Read More »
It’s easy for elderly skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients with dehydration and urinary tract infection (UTI), or dehydration and asymptomatic bacteriuria to be misappropriated as having sepsis. This misdiagnosis can result in the patient being admitted...Read More »
It’s hard to believe that it’s already the first week of August. Not that summer is over by any means, but so far it has seemed to have flown by. Maybe it’s because we haven’t really be able to do “normal summer things,” like go to the beach with friends and stop...Read More »
CMS has updated Medicare payment rules for inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and hospices.
For the fiscal year 2021 IPF Prospective Payment System Final Rule, a 2.2% payment rate update is being finalized, as well as CMS’ proposal to adopt revised...Read More »
Can you please discuss right heart failure and its relationship to pulmonary hypertension instead of diastolic heart failure. For example, established diagnosis of heart failure and methamphetamine intoxication, established diagnosis of heart and smoke inhalation or carboxyhemoglobinemia, or...Read More »
