Across the country, 106 new Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) began operation this month, according to a CMS Blog post by Jonathan Blum, CMS Acting Principal Deputy Administrator and...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS,CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, C-CDIS, CCDS The No. 1 struggle most CDI specialists face is getting physicians engaged in CDI, to provide accurate, specific, consistent documentation in the record. Unfortunately, unless healthcare is reformed to the point...Read More »
New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation represents the nation’s largest public health system, with more than a million ER visits a year,...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD Sadly, there are patients who will not survive their current level of illness regardless of the best efforts of their physicians and their medical facility. The providers caring for these patients are often at risk of underreporting those patients’ severity of...Read More »
Q: Our CDI program is three years old and our administration still questions our productivity goals. Initially we set benchmarks at 90-95% coverage rate of Medicare/Managed Medicare; 20-25% query rate; 90% response rate and 80% agree rate. Since census varies, we also established goals of...Read More »
Editor’s Note: The following questions were submitted for the ACDIS quarterly conference call of February 14, 2013, and were answered by Donna Wilson, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, Robert Gold, MD, Sylvia Hoffman, RN, CCDS, CCDI, CDIP, and Donald Butler, RN, BSN, of the ACDIS...Read More »
AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM released its second round of ICD-10 coding guidance in its First Quarter 2013 issue. The following is a recap of the issue with an eye toward what it means for CDI specialists.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 »
