When evaluating overall compliance within a CDI department, Lynne Spryszak, RN, CCDS, CPC-A, CDI education director for HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA, says that CDI department managers should:

• Try not to confine your reviews to a particular payer. Although everyone
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by Joel Moorhead, MD, PhD, CPC, and Diana Williams, BS, CPC, CCS-P, CPMA

The ICD-9 chapter-specific guidelines for neoplasms (Section 1.C.2) provides guidance for coding and sequencing of complications associated with malignancies. This section in the ICD-9-CM Manual ...Read More »

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) considered a draft recommendation from its chair, Glenn M. Hackbarth, JD, calling for a full “market basket” update of 2.6% for fiscal year 2012 inpatient hospital payments, AHA News Now reported on December 2. Hackbarth’s proposal comes...Read More »