Q: Our physician advisors are requesting the question and options be listed before the clinical indicators and treatment in the query. I could not locate any direction regarding this format in the current ACDIS/AHIMA physician query practice...Read More »
ACDIS is built by many hands outside of the full-time administrative team. While in years past, we’ve put out individual calls for our ACDIS boards and committees, this year we’re trying something a little different: We’re calling for...Read More »
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to get more involved with CDI and ACDIS, we have a suggestion for you: The Journal is ACDIS’ bimonthly publication which includes regulatory information, news, clinically-based articles, case studies, and membership profiles. Many of those...Read More »
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to get more involved with CDI and ACDIS, we have a suggestion for you: The Journal is ACDIS’ bimonthly publication which includes regulatory information, news, clinically-based articles, case studies, and membership profiles. Many of those...Read More »
The following is a list of upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters. If you have an upcoming event you would like to include, please email Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Linnea Archibald (...Read More »
Our lives as CDI specialists revolve around largely repetitive work. Our time is spent on indicators, numbers, data, crunching and parsing opposing viewpoints. It’s safe to say that it isn’t exactly creating a piece of craftsmanship we can...Read More »
CMS and the OIG will conduct a two-part study to assess inpatient hospital billing due to unspecified upcoding in hospital billing—either accidentally or intentionally reporting higher severity codes than supported by documentation to increase payment.Read More »
Findings from a retrospective analysis of inpatient data recently shows that average hospital costs and mortality rates are significantly higher for patients diagnosed with sepsis after hospital admission when compared with patients...Read More »
