For an in-depth look at the new criteria, join ACDIS and Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, principal of Pinson & Tang LLC and acclaimed author of the CDI Pocket Guide, on Thursday, December 13, 1-2:30 p.m. eastern, for an in-depth webinar on the topic....Read More »
Local chapter volunteer leaders receive certain benefits as a thank you from national for their ongoing efforts. If you are an ACDIS local chapter or network leader and are unsure of your leadership benefits, please reach out to your local chapter leadership team to discuss these benefits...Read More »
By Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, and Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS
Without a team that is fully engaged, it is impossible to maintain a compliant organization in terms of documentation. As time passes and clinical teams become more accustomed to, and comfortable with,...Read More »
I can still recall in vivid detail our first ACDIS conference back in June of 2008. We had to submit a plan to Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas to reserve rooms and space and had no prior track record with which to make our forecast.
U.S. News & World Report plans to stop using PSIs as a metric, no longer factoring those measures into its specialty rankings of the nation’s best hospitals.Read More »
According to recently released documents from the lawyers involved in the case (available via pacer.gov), the United States declined to intervene in the case and the allegations will likely be dismissed on January 14, 2019.Read More »
Q: We’re struggling with one particular aspect of encephalopathy. Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2018, pp. 24-25 advises coders to assign G93.49, Other encephalopathy, for documentation of “encephalopathy due to UTI.” Can code...Read More »
