Megan Cortazzo, MD, will present “End the CDI Silo: How Collaborative Programs Improve Revenue, Quality, and Physician Engagement,” on Day 2 of the ACDIS conference. Cortazzo is the medical director of CDI and Health Information Management (HIM) at University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in...Read More »
Ashley Comiskey, MSN, RN, CCDS, is the facility CDI supervisor at Baptist Health Paducah in Kentucky, and she’s the treasurer for the Kentucky ACDIS local chapter. She’s been in the CDI field for two and a half years and will be celebrating three years in October.Read More »
Developments continue in a $188.1 million lawsuit against Renton, Washington-based Providence Health & Services, with a judge presiding over the case requesting additional documentation from both parties to determine if the suit will continue or be dismissed...Read More »
The rate of physician burnout has dropped 10.5 percentage points over the past three years but remains at an alarming level, according to research published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings last week.Read More »
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 »