By Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
On October 1, 845+ codes took effect thanks to the fiscal year 2018 IPPS Final Rule, which was released at the beginning of August. As you review the updates, additions, and deletions in this year’s rule, I wanted to answer some of your...Read More »
No, we don’t mean the common table spice. The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is distributed by TMF Health Quality Institute under contract with CMS and summarizes facility-specific data statistics for Medicare services that may be at risk for improper payments...Read More »
All short-term acute care facilities earn reimbursement from Medicare according to the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), right? And all outpatient facilities obtain reimbursement according to the rules in the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS), correct?
Every year during the third week of September, ACDIS celebrates CDI Week. This year’s festivities took place September 17–22 with the theme of “The Wild West: New Frontiers in CDI.” This year’s theme, chosen by the ACDIS members through a poll, aimed to represent the many ways the CDI profession...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Unfortunately, I have heard horror stories through the years where a hospital’s CDI specialists do not see eye-to-eye with their colleagues in coding; sometimes, though rarely, I’ve even heard of open hostility between these two...Read More »
By Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS
Sometimes I have a dream where every physician has completely and accurately documented the condition of congestive heart failure (CHF) in every record I review.
Then my alarm clock goes off. It’s time for me to get up, get dressed, go...Read More »
By Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
The year’s final AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS for 2017 includes 114 pages—similar to the page count for the final quarter of 2016. Needless to say, it contains a lot of information.
Let’s start the ball rolling by discussing the...Read More »
Jennifer Cooper, MHIIM, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, works at Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Texas. She is a leader of the Texas ACDIS Chapter which is in the re-building stages.Read More »
