CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 32

News: Medicare payment policies updated for IPFs, SNFs, and hospices

August 6, 2020
News

CMS has updated Medicare payment rules for inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and hospices.

For the fiscal year 2021 IPF Prospective Payment System Final Rule, a 2.2% payment rate update is being finalized, as well as CMS’ proposal to adopt revised...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 32

Q&A: Right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension

August 6, 2020
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Can you please discuss right heart failure and its relationship to pulmonary hypertension instead of diastolic heart failure. For example, established diagnosis of heart failure and methamphetamine intoxication, established diagnosis of heart and smoke inhalation or carboxyhemoglobinemia, or...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 32

ACDIS update: Apply to the ACDIS Leadership Council

August 6, 2020
Leadership Council

The ACDIS Leadership Council connects forward-thinking CDI leaders through personalized sharing of insights and networking experiences that forge valuable relationships, advance strategic priorities, and illuminate game-changing trends....Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 32

ACDIS update: ACDIS Regulatory Committee posts latest “hot topics”

August 6, 2020
Clinical & Coding

The ACDIS Regulatory Committee is tasked with the reviewing regulatory policy, coding, and clinical updates, commenting to agencies on behalf of ACDIS, and providing summary, interpretation, and analysis to ACDIS members.

The Committee kicked off a new initiative for 2020, in which the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 32

ACDIS update: Webinar provides insight for developing systemwide clinical definitions

August 6, 2020
Education

Some of the most commonly queried diagnoses become focus areas simply because different physicians have different clinical definitions for what constitutes a given condition.

To help reduce confusion, CDI professionals can bring coding, quality, and clinical teams together to conduct...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 32

Local chapter update: Keep ACDIS informed of upcoming events

August 6, 2020

ACDIS wants to remind chapter leaders to contact both ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) as well as ACDIS Editor Carolyn Riel (criel@acdis.org) with information about any upcoming...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 31

Note from the ACDIS Editor: Connecting CDI leaders for networking, friendship, advice

July 30, 2020
Leadership Council

by Linnea Archibald

While the ACDIS Leadership Council launched back in September 2019, my work with it began in January of this year. The Council exists to connect forward-...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 31

News: AHIMA and AHA update ICD-10-CM coding FAQs for COVID-19

July 30, 2020
Clinical & Coding, News

Originally published near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on the United States, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and American Hospital Association (AHA) have updated their list of...Read More »

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