Sixty-one percent of the selected claims for outpatient physical therapy services did not comply with Medicare medical necessity, coding, and/or documentation requirements.Read More »
By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
If your organization has an inpatient CDI team, decide if outpatient CDI will share the same reporting structure or if the teams should be separate. A shared reporting structure can allow the new...Read More »
Medicare incorrectly paid approximately $1.7 million to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a result of incorrect billing on the part of the medical center.Read More »
Next Thursday, February 15, 1 p.m. eastern, ACDIS members are invited to join the Quarterly Conference Call with the ACDIS Advisory Board to discuss and review the new ACDIS position paper, “...Read More »
Like all reporting structures, CMS updates its Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) list each year. Recently, version 23 was released, and it contains some notable additions that CDI professionals—whether inpatient or outpatient—should be aware of.Read More »
