With the advent of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, CMS announced that it would no longer reimburse hospital costs associated with preventable conditions such as mistakes in care or hospital-acquired infections. CMS began incentivizing eligible hospitals...Read More »
Q: Recently, our inpatient psychiatric facility has been asking if it would be beneficial to have CDI review their accounts. I researched this a few years back and learned from other programs that there was little benefit as most psych DRGs are single...Read More »
By Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, and Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS
Whenever CDI staff is uncomfortable sending a clinical validation query, the physician advisor should be consulted both prior to sending it, as well as prior to following up on the response if necessary...Read More »
There is a book that every CDI specialist who’s been in the field for more than 10 years knows about, but I recently had a conversation with a group of CDI specialists with four years of experience who were not familiar with this book. The book...Read More »
William Ellex, RN, CCDS, will present a poster titled “The CDI role in the denial process: How the CDI and physician advisor can work together for a successful appeal process,” at the 2019 ACDIS conference. Ellex is a lead inpatient CDI specialist, HIM, at Reading Hospital Tower Health in...Read More »
Veteran ACDIS conference attendees are likely familiar with the ACDIS Conference app and all it offers. As in years past, the ACDIS conference is going green through the app. Remember that if you want paper materials, you’ll need to print them on your own prior to leaving the office for the...Read More »