Note: AHIMA is calling for grassroots action supporting the 2015 ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation date after a letter addressed to the House of Representatives Speaker John A. Boehner, circulated Congress calling for another two-year delay. ACDIS stands behind AHIMA in its...Read More »
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that while CMS’ transparency tools such as its Hospital and Physician Compare websites “provide some clinical quality information relevant to consumers, they often lack condition-specific information for the type of non-urgent procedures that...Read More »
Q: If a is patient admitted with malnutrition and the physician documented the patient to be malnourished from mild to severe, would the CDI team use DRG 641, Severe Malnutrition as a working DRG, or should we query the physician to clarify the severity or type of malnutrition?Read More »
As you put the final touches on your itinerary, we have a couple more speaker previews that we’d like to share with you. This week, we spoke with Allison Clerval, RN, BSN, CCDS and Kathleen M. Shindle, RN, BSN, CCDS, who will present “A Matter of Life and Death: CDI Impact on Mortality Risk...Read More »
Most of the mainstream media coverage of the recent 2014 mid-term elections focused on continued partisan politics, highlighting lack of governmental accountability and the government’s inability to agree enough on anything to address concerns facing the country. Unfortunately at many facilities...Read More »
The Maryland ACDIS Chapter has been meeting for more than five years. Although previously under the auspices of the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) (which still graciously houses the group’s monthly meetings), the group became an “official” ACDIS chapter back in 2013. On Friday, December...Read More »
The National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) has gathered experts to focus on “two pressing issues in health care: malnutrition in hospitalized patients; and caring for patients with multiple chronic conditions,” according to a November...Read More »
