ACDIS Advisory Board member Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, CDI manager at Penn State Hershey Medical Center brings along her team Marcy Miles, MT, (ASCP), MBA, manager of quality and process excellence, Melissa Macguire, RN, CDI educator, and...Read More »
Out of roughly 3,000 hospitals across the country, more than 1,600 will have an increase in their base operating MS-DRG payments, according to a CMS November 1 release, regarding...Read More »
Improper hospital claims dropped from $10.45 billion to $4.42 billion from the 2014 report period (July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013) to the 2016 report period (July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015), according...Read More »
The ACDIS Advisory Board created the following white paper which analyzes national survey data on CDI specialists' chart review productivity and lists the variables that can reduce or enhance that productivity. The white paper provides ACDIS’ recommendations on chart review productivity...Read More »
Join ACDIS Director Brian Murphy for the final two ACDIS Radio programs of 2016 on Wednesday, December 14, at 11:30 a.m., eastern for a case study of the CDI program at LifePoint Health "Standardizing CDI across 60+ facilities" and on Wednesday, December 28 for a discussion of the new ACDIS...Read More »
Throughout the past few months, the ACDIS administration has been fortunate enough to visit with Patricia Barry, CDI manager for Cape Cod Health at Falmouth Hospital in Massachusetts, and with the CDI team at Beverly (MA) Hospital (shoutout to Cheryl Beaulieu, Debra Womersley, Kathy McDiarmid,...Read More »
You can’t manage what you don’t understand. So, the first step in any effective denials management program is to develop an understanding of the what constitutes a denial, as well as the different types of denials and their contributing causes.
The ACDIS advisory board recently announced a new timeline for applications and elections to serve on the board. Beginning in 2017, the application period will open in mid-January. Candidates will have three weeks to complete their application. A committee will...Read More »
