Each year, four new advisory board members step forward to lend leadership to the ACDIS membership, and four trusted members take a step back from their roles. While new members will be elected by the ACDIS membership in January, ACDIS wants to thank its outgoing representatives for the terrific...Read More »
The quarterly CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is January 1, 2016.You...Read More »
No matter your holiday tradition, we all seem to share the almost mystical belief that this simple turning of the clock, this flip of the calendar, represents a magical reset button on our lives. We can suddenly envision a healthier, happier, more...Read More »
Over the years we've collected a number of interesting and fun CDI-related holiday memes. We thought we'd share a few of them here as our featured article to help you celebrate the season.
Physicians are constantly reminded that healthcare is undergoing significant change. October 2015 marked one more landmark change: the shift to ICD-10. Many physicians have worried about the transition and likely dreaded the loss of familiar...Read More »
CMS scours all claims it processes for eligible discharges for the pneumonia readmission measure. Every discharge that meets defined requirements counts regardless of whether the discharge resulted in a readmission. These eligible discharges are then...Read More »
Many clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists with clinical backgrounds are encoder dependent, trained to “code” using an encoder and taught to create a working MS-DRG based on grouper software. Many coders also rely on the...Read More »
