A former Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) nurse accused the hospital chain of fraudulently billing the federal government for services at Regional Medical Center in San Jose, California, to inflate reimbursement.Read More »
Healthgrades released its annual list of “America’s Best Hospitals,” using clinical outcomes to identify the top 5% of hospitals nationwide.Read More »
Q: How much does your CDI team focus on unspecified codes if it does not have an affect on the case? For example, a patient has hypertensive heart and CKD, unspecified with clinical indicators of CKD stage 3, but this was not clarified...Read More »
The NAHRI, ACDIS’ sister association, is currently seeking speakers to present at the 2019 Revenue Integrity Symposium. Additionally, ACDIS recently opened its call for speaker proposals for the 2019 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI.Read More »
Erica Braun, MS, BSN, RN, CCDS, is the manager of inpatient coding and clinical documentation at Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha. She has been in the CDI field for nine years.Read More »
