Over the past couple months, ACDIS has been running a series of polling questions about the staffing in different departments—from nurses, to physicians, and now to coders.Read More »
CDI Week provides a centerpiece for many chapter events nationwide, giving them a fun reason to celebrate their local CDI superheroes. CDI Week 2019 takes place in just a couple weeks, September 15-20, and many chapters already have plans on the books.Read More »
Sometimes writing for the ACDIS Blog feels like screaming into a pillow…you do it for your own benefit, because there’s no one to hear you. I’m very grateful that Brian Murphy, Melissa Varnavas, Linnea Archibald, and Carolyn Riel let me...Read More »
I am terrible at multiple-choice standardized tests. People laugh when I tell them the hardest test I ever took was the CPR exam—yes, that CPR test. It is not that I lack competence in CPR (although it has been a few years...Read More »
CMS proposes to extrapolate results from Medicare Advantage (MA) audits and apply an overall error rate for all plans, according to an article in FierceHealthcare...Read More »
Hospitals may be trying to avoid readmitting patients in order to sidestep CMS penalties under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), according to a new study published in The BMJ.