Outpatient. Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC). Quality. Value-based purchasing. Pediatric. Interdisciplinary, integrated CDI response and analysis. Such topics have been the buzzwords of the industry for many years, and for good reason.
Regulatory shifts associated with the 2010...Read More »
CMS will make a settlement option available for providers and suppliers (appellants) with fewer than 500 appeals pending at the Office of Medicare...Read More »
Though larger facilities may have had CDI programs for years—some for over a decade—others are only starting now. When the first CDI departments formed, they focused on CC/MCC capture and DRG assignment for accurate reimbursement, but over the years, things like value-based purchasing and...Read More »
Starting a new job can be intimidating, no matter the profession. Whether you’re coming from a clinical or coding background, the CDI role will present new challenges and come with a steep learning curve. Between coding rules and guidelines, query composition and compliance, physician engagement...Read More »
More than 30% of respondents to the 2017 CDI Industry Survey plan to expand to some sort of outpatient service in the near future. But, with fairly flexible definitions of the term “outpatient,” those planning to expand are left without direction.
As with any new frontier for CDI, those...Read More »
To support the efforts of the hundreds of volunteers across the country and internationally, another group of volunteers regularly joins the ACDIS administration—the Chapter Advisory Board. This committee has met regularly over the past five years, and this year it will enter a new phase of work...Read More »