CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 2

A Note from the CCDS Coordinator: What CEUs can I submit for my CCDS recertification?

January 12, 2017
ACDIS Guidance

by Penny Richards

ACDIS will accept as many CDI-related CEUs from other organizations as you wish to submit with one exception: If an event awards more than 10 CEUs, ACDIS will only accept 10. For example, if you attend an AHIMA training session and it awards 15 CEUs, we...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Associate Editorial Director's Note: The many heads of CDI review for quality service in healthcare

March 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion, Quality & Regulatory

by Melissa Varnavas

My husband swears he had SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). It happened on an extended weekend trip to Maine, just a few months after the south China outbreak that killed more than 700. He suffered through our trip, and when neither antibiotics nor...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 2

News: PEPPER data published

January 12, 2017
News

CMS recently released its Short-Term (ST) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics through the third quarter of the fiscal year 2016 for hospitals nationwide.

The PEPPER allows hospitals to compare Medicare billing practices against those of other...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Note from the Advisory Board: Adapting a quality of care perspective

March 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Management, CDI Expansion, Quality & Regulatory

by Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP

You may be wondering why so many CDI departments are expanding their review processes to include consideration of how CMS quality measures will be affected by claims data.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 2

News: AHIMA revises its ‘Standards of Ethical Coding’

January 12, 2017
News, Policies & Procedures

Nearly every professional association provides some type of vocation-specific guidance regarding ethical behavior. Periodically such recommendations need to be revised or updated to meet the changing needs of the industry. Such revision now comes from the American Health Information Management...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Readmission reduction: The CDI effect

March 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Policies & Procedures, Quality & Regulatory

by Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) allows CMS to penalize hospitals with excess readmissions, as written in Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act, which added section 1886(q) to the Social Security Act. Specifically, the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 2

News: Report claims CMS lax on recovering overpayments from Medicare Advantage companies

January 12, 2017
News

At a confidential agency briefing in August 2010, CMS officials outlined steps to recover more than $128 million in alleged 2007 overpayments from five Medicare Advantage insurer...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Foray into CDI for value-based purchasing

March 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion, Education, Quality & Regulatory

About 41% of CDI programs currently review medical records for quality improvement items, according to an online ACDIS membership poll. Although CMS implemented the VBP reimbursement model as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2011, many CDI programs have only recently started...Read More »

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