As the healthcare world has evolved and, even with some ups and downs, moved toward practices that center value-based care, it’s encouraging to see quality and population health enter the conversation more often. But that growing focus also exposes the cracks....Read More »
Outpatient social care interventions may strengthen outcomes for children and their families, according to a new review published in Academic Pediatrics.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) information technology (IT) arm finalized a rule to streamline the health IT certification program with the intent to save billions in compliance costs. The deregulatory rule is an explicit effort to carry out Executive Order 14192...Read More »
In a maternal mortality hotspot, researchers found that nearly a third of delivery-associated hospital deaths involved sepsis. While rare, sepsis in pregnancy was involved in 32.4% of the delivery-associated hospital deaths in Mississippi, a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates...Read More »
Q: What is an area to focus on when performing outpatient auditing for coding errors?
A: Evaluation and management (E/M) coding remains one of the highest-risk areas in outpatient auditing. Even well-intentioned providers frequently fall...Read More »
Did November sneak up on you too? Good news: the 2026 ACDIS CDI Salary Survey is STILL open for responses, with an extended deadline of this Sunday, November 8, 2026. Reply now while it is still open!
Each year, ACDIS brings together a small cohort of physician advisors dedicated to brainstorming ideas and solving challenges. This group is known as the Physician Advisor Mastermind and meets virtually every other...Read More »