I was looking through old drafts of blog posts and came upon some notes from ACDIS blogger Linda Renee Brown. She wrote that sometimes CDI professionals look for expert advice and that once they identify it, they follow it to the letter. But “What’s an expert...Read More »
ACDIS Advisory Board member Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, CDI manager at Penn State Hershey Medical Center brings along her team Marcy Miles, MT, (ASCP), MBA, manager of quality and process excellence, Melissa Macguire, RN, CDI educator, and...Read More »
Out of roughly 3,000 hospitals across the country, more than 1,600 will have an increase in their base operating MS-DRG payments, according to a CMS November 1 release, regarding...Read More »
Improper hospital claims dropped from $10.45 billion to $4.42 billion from the 2014 report period (July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013) to the 2016 report period (July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015), according...Read More »
The ACDIS Advisory Board created the following white paper which analyzes national survey data on CDI specialists' chart review productivity and lists the variables that can reduce or enhance that productivity. The white paper provides ACDIS’ recommendations on chart review productivity...Read More »
Join ACDIS Director Brian Murphy for the final two ACDIS Radio programs of 2016 on Wednesday, December 14, at 11:30 a.m., eastern for a case study of the CDI program at LifePoint Health "Standardizing CDI across 60+ facilities" and on Wednesday, December 28 for a discussion of the new ACDIS...Read More »
Throughout the past few months, the ACDIS administration has been fortunate enough to visit with Patricia Barry, CDI manager for Cape Cod Health at Falmouth Hospital in Massachusetts, and with the CDI team at Beverly (MA) Hospital (shoutout to Cheryl Beaulieu, Debra Womersley, Kathy McDiarmid,...Read More »