Marietta Morhardt, RN, BSN, CPN, CCM, and Pam McCall, BSN, RN, CCM, CPN, will present “The Pediatric Altered Brain,” on Day 2 of the ACDIS conference. Morhardt and McCall are CDI specialists at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. ...Read More »
As of October 1, 2018, the fiscal year (FY) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) took effect, along with a whole slew of code changes and CC/MCC updates. That wasn’t the only change for CDI, though. And that’s what the...Read More »
A preliminary study published in the JAMA found that a new point-of-care troponin assay can safely rule out AMI in 15 minutes in a large proportion of patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary...Read More »
Auditors could be able to extrapolate findings to larger pools of claims, according to a CMS proposed rule. An auditor could pull 30 claims, find a total overpayment of $1,000, which would mean an average...Read More »
Starting with the January/February 2019 edition of the CDI Journal, contributing writers who have a 700-1,500-word article published in the Journal will be granted one CCDS CEU, at the discretion of the ACDIS editorial team.Read More »
While ACDIS members are used to hearing ACDIS Director Brian Murphy every other week on ACDIS Radio, Murphy recently did a stint on another industry podcast, called Not Elsewhere Classified...Read More »
