Despite its centrality, it’s easy to become complacent when it comes to query practices. Because it’s a “CDI basic,” brushing up on best practices and procedures may take a back seat to flashier pursuits—such as denials management and appeals, clinical validation reviews, quality measures,...Read More »
In the outpatient setting, CDI teams face many challenges—physicians’ fast-paced schedule, varying coding rules, and a different clinical focus from traditional inpatient efforts. CDI professionals may find themselves at a loss for how to approach the query process and physician education....Read More »
The 2020 ACDIS Chapter Advisory Board will be focused on leadership engagement. The Chapter Advisory Board includes volunteers of both past and current chapter leaders from a wide variety of chapter types. ACDIS local chapters are free to determine their own bylaws and structure including the...Read More »
2020 is one of those oddities that occurs (almost) every four years: a leap year. Leap years were first created to account for the mismatch of timing between the Earth making one revolution on is own, or a day, and how long it takes to travel around the sun, which...Read More »
The largest sepsis study ever conducted with Medicare data found a 40% increase in the rate of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with the infection between 2012 and 2018, reported HealthLeaders Media.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 270,000...Read More »
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been closely monitoring an outbreak of the respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, and which continues to expand through out the world. At the beginning of February,...Read More »
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology showed hospitals that are recognized for high-quality cardiac care are also more likely to be penalized under value-based payment models, HealthLeaders Media reported.
I am a little confused about sepsis coding. I understand that the documentation of “sepsis syndrome” should be queried, but when should “viral sepsis” versus “viral sepsis syndrome” be used?Read More »
