ACDIS members are invited to participate in ACDIS’ first Quarterly Membership Conference Call of 2019 today, Thursday, February 14. During the call, the ACDIS Advisory Board and members of the ACDIS...Read More »
In the early days of CDI it would be unusual for a CDI department not to participate in physician rounds. However, according to the newest ACDIS poll, less than half of CDI...Read More »
Every year, the ACDIS Achievement Awards are presented at the annual ACDIS conference. There’s still time to nominate someone! The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 1, 2019, to allow you more time to tell us about your fantastic CDI peers.Read More »
ACDIS National requires local chapter leaders to submit a signed agreement form annually by January 30. As we gather the final forms for the remaining groups, we wanted to take a moment to go over some key...Read More »
We recently got a question in our ACDIS Inquiries mailbox seeking resources for career ladder development. According to the 2018 CDI Salary Survey, the most popular career ladder model was a step/...Read More »
Insufficient documentation. That’s the biggest reason for improper payments for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code 99234, Observation or inpatient hospital care, for the evaluation and management of a patient including admission and discharge on the same date,...Read More »
HACs declined by 13% between 2014 and 2017, preventing an estimated 20,500 deaths and $7.7 billion in healthcare costs, according to preliminary data from the AHRQ.Read More »
Although bundled payment programs have the potential to generate data that can be used to reduce costs and improve the Medicare program, the overall pool of participants and the design of voluntary bundled payment programs may reduce the value of the data and the programs overall, U.S. GAO said...Read More »
