In room 34 of the emergency department (ED) at Healthytown Municipal Hospital, a morbidly obese woman breathes with the aid of a face mask. A CDI specialist walks by and notices how the woman’s abdomen, not just her chest, rises and falls and decides to take a look at what the physician has...Read More »
Editor’s note: The following timeline contains step-by-step guidance for meeting the ICD-10 go-live date of October 1, 2013, collected and approved by the ACDIS advisory board. It includes material from the “AHIMA ICD- 10-CM/PCS Transition: Planning and Preparation Checklist.” It can be...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 CDI Talk string discussed ideas for evaluating consultants—a conversation that didn’t gather much steam. So I thought I would throw some ideas out to CDI “blog-o-sphere” to discover what floats.
When considering whether to enter into a...Read More »
There are a mere 75 days left until the 4th Annual ACDIS Conference in Orlando (April 7-8). Amazing how quickly the hands on old father time’s clock spin. It seems like just yesterday we were unpacking the boxes from the Chicago conference last June and here we are again preparing for...Read More »
Imagine sitting down to take an exam and the teacher tells you exactly what’s on the test. Not only that, but the teacher’s putting the answers up on the blackboard. PEPPER is a lot like that. It outlines areas that are at risk for payment errors (referred to in the report as “target areas”)...Read More »
