Community is a huge component of ACDIS. Part of what it means to be in community is sharing resources with others—something that’s always been a hallmark of the ACDIS membership experience. This past week, following the July 12 episode of...Read More »
For those of you who’ve visited the CCDS pages on the ACDIS website before, you likely did a lot of reading. To keep the the information on the pages is correct, current, and comprehensive, the ACDIS team recently gave the CCDS pages a facelift.Read More »
Local chapter leaders sometimes struggle with knowing just when their members want to meet. ACDIS encourages chapters and networking groups to meet at least four times per year but the scope and format of those events can change to meet the need to the local membership.Read More »
New hire training. Ongoing education. Physician education. Each area holds unique difficulties for the CDI professional in all stages of their careers. Keeping all the CDI staff and physicians on the same page can be a daunting and headache-inducing task. For...Read More »
As the role of coded data expands beyond statistical reporting and DRGs to accurate depictions of clinical scenarios, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine when a condition reaches a reportable threshold, according to a new ACDIS White Paper “...Read More »
Carolinas Healthcare System (CHS) agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle allegations of a years-long practice of upcoding urine drug tests, the Office of...Read More »
Q: A patient with documented acute respiratory failure, could have both confusion and somnolence, but should both confusion and somnolence be coded? When should the symptoms be coded? For example, with a patient who has abdominal pain...Read More »