This morning, Natalie Stavas, MD, took the stage to kick off the 12th annual ACDIS conference in Kissimmee, Florida, by sharing her story of running toward chaos. On April 15, 2013, Stavas was running the Boston Marathon when two bombs detonated at the finish line. With only a moment’...Read More »
Ann Schwab, RHIT, CCDS, is the CDI team lead at A&R Contracting, Inc. in Mount Vernon, Washington. Prior to becoming a CDI professional six years ago, Schwab was an inpatient coder.Read More »
The temperature here, just north of Boston, is hovering around 40 degrees. There was talk of possible snow flurries this week. Right now, it’s gray, misting. The wind is blowing.
At the ACDIS main office more than a dozen staff gathered around the table...Read More »
The qSOFA is often used as a predictive assessment to determine if a patient has sepsis, allowing the hospital to start the various sepsis care measures faster and potentially save more lives. A new study published in...Read More »
Q: If Type 2 myocardial infarction (MI) and demand ischemia are both documented, should I code only Type 2 MI based on the Excludes 1 note found in the Tabular List under demand ischemia?
This new paper from Elsevier, defines the process of DRG validation and how it can benefit provider organizations by ensuring that the correct information is communicated the first time.Read More »