Emily Castelvecchi, MSN, MHA, RN, CCDS, CRCR,asks: “We are looking into creating separate and distinct job descriptions for CDI. One for our exempt CDI specialists who are RNs, PAs, NPs, or MDs, and one for our non-exempt CDI specialists who are coders, respiratory therapists,...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas, CPC, ACDIS associate director
In the fall of 2009 Leah Taylor, RN, CCDS, and Jennifer Love, RN, BA, CCDS, president and vice president of the North Carolina ACDIS chapter respectively, challenged members of their local chapter to earn...Read More »
As always, the ACDIS office will be closed intermittently over the month of December in observance of the winter holidays. Specifically, the office will be entirely closed Friday, December 23, 2022, till Tuesday, December 27, 2022, and Friday, December 30, 2022, till Tuesday, January 3, 2023. ...Read More »
The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) includes a wealth of information regarding MS-DRG outliers that might otherwise go completely unnoticed. That’s what happened at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. until the 15-hospital health system began analyzing its...Read More »
Nine hospitals in seven states will pay the United States more than $9.4 million combined to resolve claims that they overcharged Medicare between 2000 and 2008, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release....Read More »
ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald sends out “missed connections” emails with questions from Council members on a regular basis. Anyone with experience related to one of the questions was invited to respond and Archibald connected them with the question-asker....Read More »
Q:I am looking for help posing queries regarding the specific link between diabetes and conditions typically considered diabetic complications. Should we always query the physician regarding the link between the presenting symptom and the diabetes?
Next week more than 500 CDI specialists from around the country will meet at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago for the 3rd Annual ACDIS Conference. This year’s conference features more than 30 speakers and offers three distinct tracks of programs from which to choose. The main conference...Read More »
