The 2017 application period for four open positions on the ACDIS Advisory Board opened earlier this month and will close on January 30. The ACDIS Advisory Board is responsible for providing leadership, expertise, and an industry voice for the ACDIS membership. It is ACDIS’ most prestigious board...Read More »
“Working in a critical access hospital (CAH) lets you get your feet wet in a lot of different areas,” said Ellen Shriver, RN, CCDS, then a CDI specialist, RAC coordinator, inpatient coder, and auditor for Boone County Health Center in Albion, Nebraska, on...Read More »
The 2017 ACDIS Local Chapter CEU application is available on the ACDIS web site, on the “Recertification” page under the “Certification” tab. As in the past, there is no fee for CEU applications from ACDIS Local Chapters....Read More »
As Robert S. Gold, MD, co-founder of DCBA, Inc. and founding ACDIS Advisory Board member, was fond of saying, “Pediatric medicine is not adult medicine for little adults.”Read More »
As with any profession, many unique individuals make up the pediatric CDI field. Since pediatrics represents a relatively new area for CDI, ACDIS spent some time chatting with “the proud and the few,” as Leah Savage, RN, MSN, CDI specialist at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky,...Read More »
The 2017 ACDIS Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey uncovered a number of tidbits about the query process, but the survey also probed the state of remote CDI programs. While 40.8% of respondents cited having some sort of remote CDI option, 36.03% of respondents reported having some sort of...Read More »
by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
Many CDI and coding professionals let out a sigh of relief when the First Quarter 2017 edition of AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS arrived—it’s only 52 pages long, a novella compared to the voluminous tomes of previous editions. I looked at...Read More »
