CDI initiatives often focus on inpatient documentation to ensure that the documentation accurately reflects patient severity. Capturing that documentation and specificity will be even more important as ICD-10 preparation and implementation efforts get underway. Yet ICD-10 implementation will...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 »
A new bill introduced in the House and Senate includes a small, rather buried section that would delay implementation of ICD-10 for another year, to Oct. 1, 2015.
The main focus of the bill is a fix to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR),...Read More »
As a reminder, ACDIS is planning a special Leadership Council reception at the 2025 ACDIS conference on Tuesday, May 6, after the sessions have ended! If you’re planning to attend the conference, we encourage you to...Read More »
It’s been more than 12 years since AHIMA published its first recommendations governing coder-physician interactions. Since “Developing a Physician Query Process,” published in 2001, much in the healthcare industry has changed—and much change is still to come.
