CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 20

White Paper: Understand principal diagnosis selection factors to determine appropriate code assignment

September 29, 2011
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding, Quality & Regulatory

Documentation improvement staff often struggle with principal diagnosis selection. A clear understanding of the definition of principal diagnosis and the factors that play into principal diagnosis selection is extremely important, although often confusing.

The definition of principal...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 20

Tip: What color is your PEPPER?

September 29, 2011
CDI Management, Quality & Regulatory

The quarterly reports issued by the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER)contain large amounts of data on how a facility compares to others in the same state, the same jurisdiction (i.e., the same Medicare Administrative Contractor), and nationwide in terms of coding...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 20

Q&A: Coding Clinic clarifies SIRS query questions

September 29, 2011
Ask ACDIS

Q:  How should I query for systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) if SIRS codes to sepsis? I want to correctly query and obtain the proper supporting information in the...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 5, Issue 19

Conference Q&A: ‘CDI Career Ladder’

May 10, 2012
Ask ACDIS, CDI Management

Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series of Q&As with presenters and participants from the ...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 5, Issue 18

Conference Q&A: ‘The Physician Advisor’s Role in CDI’

May 8, 2012
Ask ACDIS, Education

Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series of Q&As with presenters and participants from the ...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 18

Director's Note: CDI Week celebrations commence!

September 15, 2011
ACDIS Guidance

Well, we’re almost here at Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, which begins this Sunday, Sept. 18Almost since day 1 of the start of ACDIS back on Oct. 1, 2007, our members have asked (clamored might be a better word) for a week to recognize this unique profession. It’s finally here!...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 18

News: CMS releases bundled payment information

September 2, 2011
News, Quality & Regulatory

Trying to convince physicians that good documentation has “something in it for them” is a battle that CDI specialists fight each day. But a new CMS initiative that bundles physician and hospital payment into one lump sum could represent a long-term, revolutionary solution to that age-old...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 18

News: Baptist Healthcare settles after claims of improper billing for sepsis, respiratory failure

September 2, 2011
News

$8.9 million. That is the amount Kentucky-based Baptist Healthcare Systems, Inc., had to pay as of September 1 to settle claims of improper billing related to respiratory infections and inflammations, pulmonary edema (fluid accumulation in the lungs), respiratory failure, and septicemia (blood...Read More »

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