When can you see ACDIS Director Brian Murphy, and CDI experts Trey LaCharite, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS, and James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, all in the same place outside of the #ACDIS2017 conference? Just head on over to Nashville on Friday, January 27, to the Tennessee Hospital Association headquarters...Read More »
Do you hold the CCDS certification? Do you know when it expires?
Once again, I heard from someone asking when his CCDS recertification is due. It expired and he wasn't happy. He changed jobs but hadn’t communicated his new email address to us.
ACDIS is not responsible for expired...Read More »
CMS issued a final rule on February 11, 2016, creating a reporting and repayment obligation for providers and suppliers who receive a Medicare overpayment.Read More »
The government will have to comply with its congressionally mandated deadlines for reviewing claims at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level after a federal appeals court this week reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by hospitals.Read More »
Some patients being cared for in a fully electronic health record (EHR) environment were less likely to experience in-hospital adverse events, according to a recent report published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.Read More »
Q: In the past few weeks, we noticed physicians are documenting acute congestive heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (EF), instead of diastolic or systolic. In speaking with the physicians, they say the heart failure is not diastolic or systolic. What is the best way...Read More »
