The world of outpatient CDI is diverse and growing ever larger. Listen to the newest ACDIS Podcast episode in a conversation with our guest Hailey Ryfinski, RN, the director of outpatient CDI at Mayo Clinic Health System throughout the Midwest, who discusses moving from...Read More »
Outpatient visits are being billed at a higher level of complexity than they were in the past, according to a recent study conducted by the Peterson-...Read More »
Four years ago, when Tami McMasters Gomez, MHL, BS-HIM, CCDS, CDIP, the director of coding and CDI services at the University of California Medical Center at Davis in Sacramento, was asked to review the hospital’s contractual agreement for its...Read More »
by Jess Fluegel
Despite increased expansion into outpatient CDI over the past several years, there are plenty of hang-ups that stop people from starting the journey. Among 2022 CDI Week Industry Survey...Read More »
by Purvi Shah, MD
To start with some background, Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) are an increasingly important way to track and report disease in the ambulatory setting, especially in value-based care. This concept is long-standing; the importance of a standardized way to...Read More »
by Kathleen M. Romero, MSN, RN, EBP-C, Cynthia Beal, MBA-HCM, BSN, RN, and Renee Pate, MSOL, MSN Ed., RN, CCDS
In 2018, the South Texas Veterans Health Care System implemented a CDI program in the emergency department (ED) with the goal of improving coding accuracy, professional...Read More »
With our final virtual event of 2022 ending today, the ACDIS team is turning our collective attention to the 2023 ACDIS national conference, happening May 8–11, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. The event features five tracks of unparalleled education over three extraordinary days—that’s more than 50...Read More »