Time is running out to submit a poster proposal for the 2024 ACDIS national conference! If you’re looking for ways to share your amazing team’s success with the national CDI community, you have until December 31, 2023, to submit an...Read More »
This week's guest is Deanne Wilk, MPS, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro. In this episode, we explore the trajectory of the industry in 2024.Read More »
For the last few years, ACDIS has been working with a multiorganizational malnutrition diagnosis, documentation, and coding task force including the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN), the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy),...Read More »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) added a maternal health outcomes section to the CMS Care Compare website as part of its efforts to increase equitable access for quality maternal health services, according to a recent...Read More »
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare setting provides adequate solutions for well-characterized, standalone diagnostic questions but aren’t yet capable of “interpreting context and providing cues that guide the diagnostician,” according to an article in the...Read More »
A decline of physician services in early 2020 due to COVID-19 is responsible to a drop of $13.9 billion in Medicare spending, equaling a 14% in Medicare claims, according to a report published by the...Read More »
I have a question about coding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HIV-related illnesses. If a physician documents a patient is HIV positive, should the chart be coded to Z21? What about if they document the patient is HIV positive with an HIV-related illness—would that be coded to B20?Read More »