Last month, CMS announced its plan to launch a new voluntary bundled payment model—the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced)—but neglected to include a full package of...Read More »
When AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM,Second Quarter 2017, came out last year I found myself repeating a conversation I’d had with physicians many times before. Such is the life of a CDI professional—if it were one-and-done...Read More »
Only 12% of eligible hospitals signed up for CMS’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Model 2 initiative and 47% of them dropped out completely within two years, according to a recent study by ...Read More »
CMS now allows teaching physicians to verify in the medical record any student documentation of E/M services, rather than re-documenting the work.Read More »
You’ve finished planning your next local chapter event. You’ve found the speakers and created an agenda. Now, you want to start advertising and getting people interested. Offering CCDS CEUs can be a great way to entice folks to participate.Read More »