Physicians resist change. They fear it. Although comfortable reading medical literature, and comfortable improving patient care with new techniques and medications, having CDI professionals “educate” physicians about improving their documentation...Read More »
The 5th Annual ACDIS Conference early registration cutoff date is next Friday, March 9. This year's conference will be held at the Manchester Grand...Read More »
Join us this summer for ACDIS Encore: Clinical & Coding Online! This virtual event takes place Tuesday, August 13–Thursday, August 15 and features sessions recorded live from the Clinical & Coding track at the 2024 ACDIS national...Read More »
As of Wednesday, February 29, hospitals can access their Value-Based Purchasing Simulated Hospital Report via QualityNet, according to a CMS spokesman who walked participants through a sample report earlier this week.
Beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, CMS will reimburse facility under...Read More »
The fourth quarter 2011 Short-Term Acute Care Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is available via QualityNet. This PEPPER release suppresses data regarding “PTCA with Stent” statistics due to problems in the national Medicare claims data warehouse and includes a...Read More »
Review Medicaid Integrity Contractors (MICs) completed 81% of their CMS assignments resulting in potential $282 million in possible recoveries for Jan. 1, 2010, to June 30, 2010, according to a February OIG report...Read More »