CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 17

Director’s Note: Quarterly call today, physician advisor survey closes tomorrow, September deadline for 2012 speaker proposals

August 18, 2011
ACDIS Guidance

Conference call
The next quarterly conference call for ACDIS members is scheduled for Thursday, August 18, from 1-2 p.m. ET. ACDIS members should have received their dial-in instructions via e-mail. To access the call, dial the toll-free number, and enter the password/guest...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 17

News: MACs to take over demand letter submission from RACs

August 18, 2011
News

In January facilities should expect to receive Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) demand letters not from the RAC itself but from their Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), according to CMS Transmittal 192...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 17

News: CMS adds mortality data for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia to Hospital Compare site

August 18, 2011
News

CMS recently updated Hospital Compare web site data for 30-day mortality rates and 30-day readmissions rates for inpatients admitted with heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. The data shows national declines in 30-day mortality rates of 15.9% from 2007 through 2010. (Read more at...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 17

News: Whistleblower case highlights leading query concerns

August 18, 2011
News, Physician Queries, Quality & Regulatory

It started with two courageous coders who knew the query process where they worked at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Inc., in Baltimore, wasn't quite right--or compliant.

Specifically, the hospital employed a physician who worked in the billing department to review clinical...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 17

Tip: Making sense of myocardial infarction sequencing rules

August 18, 2011
Clinical & Coding

By Linda Renee Brown, RN, CCRN, CCDS, MA

One of the most confusing diagnoses to code and sequence is the acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It is the elephant in the room of circulatory diagnoses—it takes up the most space and can never be ignored. I’m going to try to make some...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 17

Q&A: Keep query retention policies consistent

August 18, 2011
Ask ACDIS

Q: Should queries from different departments be treated and stored differently? Should they be placed in a different location or anything along those lines?
CDI Blog - Volume 5, Issue 16

Conference Q&A: ‘The Art of Communication in CDI’

April 25, 2012
Ask ACDIS, Education

Editor’s Note: Over the coming days and weeks, we will post a series of Q&As with presenters and participants from the ...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 16

Director's Note: Join us on the podium at the 2012 ACDIS Conference

August 4, 2011
ACDIS Guidance

We are currently seeking speakers to present at the 2012 ACDIS fifth Annual Conference, to be held May 10-11, 2012 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.

Is that special person you or a colleague?
We seek speakers to present on all aspects of clinical...Read More »

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