The following is a list of upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters! Visit your local chapter’s webpage on the ACDIS site for additional information about upcoming meetings. To join a chapter if you haven’t already or to update your chapter contact...Read More »
One of the reasons I love looking at our ACDIS data is that it shines a spotlight on what our CDI community members are looking for. Though the annual ACDIS Membership Survey often helps us identify areas in our offerings for expansion (leading to long-term,...Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and other national health organizations—like the American Medical Association, the Children’s Hospital Association, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness—have signed a...Read More »
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a study demonstrating that, between 2015 through 2021, codes designed to specify inflammatory arthritis...Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently released a report detailing the increasing financial tolls on hospitals and health systems and the bleak prospects for United States healthcare,...Read More »
Q: A 64-year-old female bilateral lung transplant recipient presents with aspiration pneumonia, hypoxia, and has immunosuppression from the drugs. How would this scenario be reported in ICD-10-CM?
A: Sequenced correctly, the scenario...Read More »
Dee Banet, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, is the CDI division director at AdventHealth in East Florida.