Wondering how your CDI query efforts stack up against national norms? Wish you had some national benchmarking data at your fingertips to help you understand your physician's engagement with your CDI program?
Please take 10 minutes to participate in the...Read More »
There’s still one day left to nominate a colleague for an ACDIS Achievement Award. We want to help you honor someone who has helped make a difference at your facility, who’s made significant contributions to the CDI field, or is an outspoken advocate for CDI.
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 »
Computer-assisted coding (CAC) is to native, manual coding as reading Dickens’ Great Expectations for an English class is to reading the book for pleasure (in my opinion).Read More »
Since the advent of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, CDI professionals have known that physician copy and paste errors pose a threat to accurate documentation. Consequently, these errors can also negatively affect patient safety as well, according to a...Read More »
A Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) study showed insufficient documentation caused the most improper payments for facet joint injections, according to the January 2016 Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter.Read More »
Nearly half of the death certificates reviewed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2012 listed the cause of death inaccurately. The Morbidity and Mortality Report, published in January, reviewed 205 medical charts at random from eight separate hospitals in the...Read More »
