I am often asked by CDI managers and directors about how can they hire and retain a successful CDI specialist. These comments identify two issues: one, finding a person with the right skills, and, two, keeping them in this highly...Read More »
One of the biggest concerns regarding electronic health record implementation has been the proliferation of physicians simply copying and pasting information from the previous days’ record forward. Now, there’s new guidelines on effective use of this tool from the Partnership for Health IT...Read More »
Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 declared that any off-campus hospital outpatient departments that started billing after passage of the bill November 2, 2015, would not be paid under the OPPS, but other Part B payment systems, such as the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) or...Read More »
Q: We are having trouble determining how to assign a code for a pressure ulcer that begins as a Stage I concern that is present on admission (POA) but advances during the patient’s stay to a Stage II or a Stage III. Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2008, p. 194, tells us that even if...Read More »
Carmen Y. Ibarrondo Malave, MS, RHIA, CHPS, CCS-P ICD10 Trainer Ambassador, and the leader of the Puerto Rico ACDIS Chapter sent us this picture of their successful meeting in April with students and professors of the Master Health Information Management group at Medical Science Campus during...Read More »
The countdown clock to the ACDIS conference officially clicked over to just 74 days. But time runs even shorter to benefit from the early-bird registration, which expires in just 13 days on March 22, and the hotel discount rate which expires on April 21. Read More »
