Q: CMS released guidance this summer about not auditing or counting errors for the specificity of an ICD-10-CM code. CMS is not going to count the code as an error as long as the first three digits are correct. Does this apply to medical necessity diagnoses and edits. Read More »
As you plan your itinerary, we are interviewing a handful of speakers to give you a feel for the sessions. This week, we spoke with Susan Edamala RN, MSN, CCRN, CDI specialist at the University of Illinois in Chicago, who, along with Karl Kochendorfer, MD, FAAFP, will present “...Read More »
As I mentioned in the most recent edition of the CDI Journal, my 96-year-old grandmother recently took a spill. She hit her head on the corner of the kitchen counter, which earned her seven stitches over her left eye plus a compression fracture in her neck. Within 24...Read More »
The electronic health record has been a game-changer for CDI specialists, automating review processes, alerting providers to queries, and tracking physician responses. However, the new technology brings challenges as well. Read More »
What will the 2015 CDI Salary Survey bear out? With nearly 700 respondents so far, more than 60% indicate that their facilities offer additional career ladder opportunities with a CDI team lead role and other possibilities. Add your insight into how CDI staff job responsibilities and...Read More »
A federal judge, finding in favor of hospitals, rejected CMS’s arguments that it met all legal requirements for rulemaking when the organization cut hospital inpatient payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its 2-midnight policy, according to a statement issued by the American Hospital Association...Read More »