CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6

Note from the Instructor: Your 2018 IPPS Final Rule questions, answered

November 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

By Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
On October 1, 845+ codes took effect thanks to the fiscal year 2018 IPPS Final Rule, which was released at the beginning of August. As you review the updates, additions, and deletions in this year’s rule, I wanted to answer some of your...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 6

Physician engagement webinar February 15!

February 8, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, News, Physician Queries, Education

In responding to this year's ACDIS membership survey, hundreds of respondents indicated that obtaining physician support for their CDI efforts represented their biggest challenge. So, we're thrilled to have the 2016 CDI Professional of the Year award winner Karen DiMeglio, RN, MS, CPC,...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6

Pass the PEPPER: Benchmark CDI efforts and defend against denials

November 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory, Denials & Appeals

No, we don’t mean the common table spice. The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is distributed by TMF Health Quality Institute under contract with CMS and summarizes facility-specific data statistics for Medicare services that may be at risk for improper payments...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6

Quality documentation takes center stage: PPS-exempt facilities

November 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

All short-term acute care facilities earn reimbursement from Medicare according to the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), right? And all outpatient facilities obtain reimbursement according to the rules in the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS), correct?

Not...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6

Oh, the places you'll go: Seventh annual CDI Week celebrates CDI expansion

November 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion

Every year during the third week of September, ACDIS celebrates CDI Week. This year’s festivities took place September 17–22 with the theme of “The Wild West: New Frontiers in CDI.” This year’s theme, chosen by the ACDIS members through a poll, aimed to represent the many ways the CDI profession...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6

Physician Advisor Corner: CDI and coding don't get along. Now what?

November 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Unfortunately, I have heard horror stories through the years where a hospital’s CDI specialists do not see eye-to-eye with their colleagues in coding; sometimes, though rarely, I’ve even heard of open hostility between these two...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6

Opinion: New heart failure codes cause heartburn for CDI

November 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

By Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS
Sometimes I have a dream where every physician has completely and accurately documented the condition of congestive heart failure (CHF) in every record I review.

Then my alarm clock goes off. It’s time for me to get up, get dressed, go...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6

Coding Clinic for CDI: Coding Clinic release tackles common CDI questions

November 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

By Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
The year’s final AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS for 2017 includes 114 pages—similar to the page count for the final quarter of 2016. Needless to say, it contains a lot of information.

Let’s start the ball rolling by discussing the...Read More »

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