Senate Finance, House Ways and Means, and House Energy and Commerce committees combined multiple Medicare physician payment reform proposals into one bipartisan bill titled SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014, released Feb. 6.
Please clarify the rule regarding presumption of the link of diabetes, when documented, to the diagnosis of osteomyelitis when both are documented by the provider.Read More »
ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald sends out “missed connections” emails with questions from Council members on a regular basis. Anyone with experience related to one of the questions was invited to respond and Archibald connected them with the question-asker. In order to share...Read More »
Most coders and CDI specialists are familiar with the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) definition of principal diagnosis: the condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital for care.
It’s time to respond to our third Leadership Council survey of the 2025/2026 term, which is focused on CDI for clinical and quality alignment! As a reminder, Council members must complete 75% of the content surveys...Read More »
