When can you see ACDIS Director Brian Murphy, and CDI experts Trey LaCharite, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS, and James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, all in the same place outside of the #ACDIS2017 conference? Just head on over to Nashville on Friday, January 27, to the Tennessee Hospital Association headquarters...Read More »
by Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS
One of the many coder/CDI obligations is to report noncompliant activities. Your employer’s compliance plan may direct you to report these noncompliant observations to the compliance officer or a compliance hotline.
Q:I can’t distinguish between “code first” and “in diseases classified elsewhere.” Both are used with manifestations and both can’t be sequenced as principal diagnosis, and both need etiology codes so what is the difference?
The 30-day all cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality outcome measure has been linked to hospital payments since the inception of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP) in fiscal year 2013. In February 2016, CMS announced that...Read More »
Q:We are getting pressure from our othopods to send all queries to their nurse practitioner (NP). Our facility bylaws allow NPs to function independently and they are allowed to answer queries without co-signature, so we routinely send queries to NPs who are caring for...Read More »
Join us Thursday, January 26, 2017
1:00-2:30 p.m. Eastern
Struggling to identify clinical indicators needed to qualify a diagnosis as complication comorbid (CC) condition or a major CC (MCC) condition? New coders and CDI specialists often do, but so do those who’ve been in the field...Read More »
