Join us next week on Tuesday, August 22 to Thursday, August 24 for a special virtual event, ACDIS Encore: Clinical & Coding Online, featuring sessions recorded live during the 2023 ACDIS national conference—the entire Clinical & Coding...Read More »
Hospital acquired conditions (HAC): The phrase seems simple enough to understand. These are conditions one acquires while in the hospital, right? Like most phrases included in the healthcare vernacular, however, discussion of HAC contains various levels of detail that can be difficult to...Read More »
If you have experience with the topic below, please email Linnea Archibald at larchibald@acdis.org by noon eastern on Friday, August 18, and she'll connect you with the relevant folks at the end of the day on...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in March posted new 2011 guidelines for ICD-10-CM. There are relatively few changes to conventions, general coding guidelines, and chapter specific guidelines. Adjustments are easy to spot since...Read More »
Legible. Complete. Dated, timed, signed, and authenticated. That's what section 482.24 of the Medicare Conditions of Participation requires of medical records. But many facilities struggle to achieve this seemingly simple task. Falling short doesn't just affect quality and patient care. Auditors...Read More »
This month’s question was submitted on June 30, 2023, and focuses on compliant queries. Please note that questions and answers have been de-identified for the purposes of this article.
Q: Our issue is that when constructing the query, the CDI specialist/coder is giving...Read More »
Over the past several years there have been a number of conversations that touch on physician leadership involvement with CDI. Programs can and do achieve success, but so much more is achieved when there is a proactive and supportive medical voice.
