CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 52

Note from the Director: Thanks for a productive 2017!

December 22, 2016
ACDIS Guidance

By Brian D. Murphy

The end of the year and the holiday season is a time to reflect on accomplishments, and give thanks to the colleagues and friends who helped you produce good work and meet professional goals along the way. And the year 2016 will go down as a very productive one...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 52

News: New HHS and CMS leaders picked for 2017 posts

December 22, 2016
News

President-elect Donald Trump selected Republican Representative Tom Price, 62, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia to head the Department of Health and Human Services and Seema Verma, founder of the Indiana health policy consulting firm SVC Inc., as his pick for administrator of the Centers for...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 52

News: CMS releases new Compare sites

December 22, 2016
News, Policies & Procedures, Quality & Regulatory

The latest rollout of healthcare facility assessments expands the government’s Compare websites to  Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs) and...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 52

Tip: Seven lessons for physician CDI education

December 22, 2016
Clinical & Coding, Education

Ensuring hospital revenue integrity requires three operational pillars—clinical coding, CDI, and physician education, according to Kalispell (Montana) Regional Medical Center’s (KRMC), director of CDI services and ICD-10 project manager Christine Seager, RN, BSN, CCDS.

“Accuracy is the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 52

News: Outpatient payment system final rule includes measures to watch

December 22, 2016
CDI Expansion

CMS made certain concessions from its proposed site-neutral payment policies required by Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act, but it is still moving forward with implementation January 1, 2017, according to the 2017 OPPS final rule.

In the final rule, released November 1, CMS...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 52

News: CMS and NQF release new quality measures under consideration

December 22, 2016
CDI Expansion, News, Quality & Regulatory

CMS released its list of quality measures under consideration (MUC) in November and the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) begun its annual review of the list, according to a blog post from the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC).

The list...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 52

Q&A: Understanding pneumonia sequencing

December 22, 2016
Ask ACDIS

Q: Can you please help me determine the query opportunities and code assignment/sequencing argument related to a patient who was admitted with pneumonia, congestive heart failure, acute respiratory failure, and encephalopathy? I thought that the pneumonia would be the primary and the respiratory...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 51

Guest Post: It begins and ends in Patient Safety

April 21, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

By Jocelyn E. Murray, RN, CCDS

My CDI journey began at a level one trauma and teaching hospital in New Mexico. I accepted a permanent recruitment position and relocated out west. I shifted my career role from case management into CDI Implementation. There, I reported directly to...Read More »

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