The Office of Inspector General (OIG) will be conducting a second round of audits to determine whether acute care hospitals are being inappropriately reimbursed for outpatient services provided to inpatients, according to an update to its...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Most CDI programs came into being with the primary focus of financial improvement and reimbursement accuracy: capturing CCs/MCCs to shift the MS-DRG placement to one with a higher relative weight. The impacts of these efforts were straightforward to demonstrate,...Read More »
by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCS, CRC, CCDS
Over the last eight years, small pockets of the healthcare industry have been adapting an organizational culture that had its origins in mission-critical endeavors. These efforts mostly surround things such as clinical care processes and...Read More »
Amid the many recent COVID-19 coding updates, it may have been easy to overlook Medicare’s new COVID-19 treatments add-on payment (NCTAP). The NCTAP is applied in addition to the MS-DRG payment for inpatient cases.
The ACDIS Regulatory Committee has released insight for the NCTAP for use...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Though the adoption of outpatient CDI has been growing steadily over the years, it’s not always easy to prove the return on investment (ROI) for such efforts. While there will likely be struggles such as gaining buy-in from the C-suite and providers, developing an...Read More »
Every January, ACDIS asks its members to participate in a short survey to share their thoughts about membership benefits. It’s an opportunity for members to share what they love about ACDIS and what they wish ACDIS might provide its members in the coming year.
