by Carolyn Riel
The inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) was first implemented in 1983 to help combat unnecessary or excessive services being charged when Medicare was reimbursing on a fee-for-service model. Before the IPPS, the International Classification of Diseases (...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
My parents transferred me from public school to Catholic school in second grade. We were Methodists at the time. That year, my Catholic school counterparts were earning their first communion bona fides. During such lessons, I was left alone in the classroom...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
Socrates tells us that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” We might do better than to take advice from a man so disliked by his fellow Athenians that he was forced to drink hemlock, and whose final words were an ironic request to sacrifice...Read More »
by Brian Murphy
CDI has come a long way from the days of DRG optimization. Today’s healthcare landscape is far more interconnected than it was a decade ago. Capitated payment models, bundled episodes of care, and pay-for-performance are slowly but inexorably taking more of the pie...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
In a healthcare environment that puts increasing emphasis on pay-for-quality models, it’s no surprise that nearly 92.5% of all respondents to the...Read More »
Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O, is the director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the social media coordinator for the North Carolina ACDIS local chapter, and she has been a...Read More »
FEATURES 6 Strategies for CDI new hires 10 Case study: CDI in Canada 17 Staff appreciation and retention 20 Case study: Leadership transitions...Read More »
