Despite the fact that sepsis is one of the deadliest and costly medical conditions for hospitals, doctors frequently fail to properly document this immune system response to infection that kills more than 250,000 Americans each year,...Read More »
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), providers have to recertify their Medicaid reimbursement eligibility. Because of this provision, more than 65,000 providers across 15 states lost their spots on the Medicaid roll, according to...Read More »
Q: I work at a pediatric hospital and am wondering if a newly diagnosed diabetic patient should also have malnutrition coded separately. While the dietician sees these patients routinely, the head of endocrinology explained she hasn’t been documenting the level of malnutrition because it...Read More »
Former ACDIS Advisory Board member Dee Banet, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, director of CDI at Norton Healthcare in Louisville, Kentucky, is also the founder and past president of the southern Indiana/Kentucky local ACDIS chapter. A 17-year veteran on the CDI field, she joined the ranks...Read More »
Do you read the ACDIS blog? If you do, there’s a way to make it even easier to catch up on all the latest ACDIS and CDI news. Just like CDI Strategies, you can get each blog post delivered to your email inbox as soon as it’s published.Read More »
The following is a list of all the upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters. If you have an upcoming event you would like to include, please email Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@hcpro.com) and Linnea Archibald (...Read More »
