by Trey La Charité, MD Sadly, there are patients who will not survive their current level of illness regardless of the best efforts of their physicians and their medical facility. The providers caring for these patients are often at risk of underreporting those patients’ severity of...Read More »
Q: Our CDI program is three years old and our administration still questions our productivity goals. Initially we set benchmarks at 90-95% coverage rate of Medicare/Managed Medicare; 20-25% query rate; 90% response rate and 80% agree rate. Since census varies, we also established goals of...Read More »
Editor’s Note: The following questions were submitted for the ACDIS quarterly conference call of February 14, 2013, and were answered by Donna Wilson, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, Robert Gold, MD, Sylvia Hoffman, RN, CCDS, CCDI, CDIP, and Donald Butler, RN, BSN, of the ACDIS...Read More »
AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM released its second round of ICD-10 coding guidance in its First Quarter 2013 issue. The following is a recap of the issue with an eye toward what it means for CDI specialists.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. In order to share...Read More »
The road to ICD-10 has been a long one, and we still have many miles ahead of us. Organizations have invested a significant amount of time and money into this venture, and even though October 1 is rapidly approaching, there’s still work to be done before and after implementation.
ACDIS volunteer boards and committees are the cornerstone of our organization, serving the ACDIS community through best-practice guidance, celebration and appreciation programs, advocacy of other members, and much more.
Volunteers also have personal opportunity to widen their own personal...Read More »
