The 2017 ACDIS Local Chapter CEU application is available on the ACDIS web site, on the “Recertification” page under the “Certification” tab. As in the past, there is no fee for CEU applications from ACDIS Local Chapters....Read More »
As Robert S. Gold, MD, co-founder of DCBA, Inc. and founding ACDIS Advisory Board member, was fond of saying, “Pediatric medicine is not adult medicine for little adults.”Read More »
As with any profession, many unique individuals make up the pediatric CDI field. Since pediatrics represents a relatively new area for CDI, ACDIS spent some time chatting with “the proud and the few,” as Leah Savage, RN, MSN, CDI specialist at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky,...Read More »
The 2017 ACDIS Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey uncovered a number of tidbits about the query process, but the survey also probed the state of remote CDI programs. While 40.8% of respondents cited having some sort of remote CDI option, 36.03% of respondents reported having some sort of...Read More »
by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
Many CDI and coding professionals let out a sigh of relief when the First Quarter 2017 edition of AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS arrived—it’s only 52 pages long, a novella compared to the voluminous tomes of previous editions. I looked at...Read More »
By Susan Wallace, MEd, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, FAHIMA
Believe it or not, the Federal Register is one of the best crystal balls to foresee the future of CDI.Read More »
ACDIS will accept as many CDI-related CEUs from other organizations as you wish to submit with one exception: If an event awards more than 10 CEUs, ACDIS will only accept 10. For example, if you attend an AHIMA training session and it awards 15 CEUs, we...Read More »