ACDIS local chapters come in all shapes and sizes—from coffee shop meet-ups, to all-day events with multiple speakers. Recently, two large local chapters—Kentucky and Indiana—joined forces for a comprehensive full-day event.Read More »
As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Leigh Wolff, RN, BSN, CCDS, a clinical documentation specialist at Elkhart General Hospital in...Read More »
Last week’s Talk10Tuesday podcast featured one of ACDIS’ own members, Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, for a chat about outpatient CDI. Boldt is the system manager of CDI at Essentia Health,...Read More »
Fall is one of the busiest times for ACDIS’ many local chapters. With school starting again, it seems the educational CDI events are keeping stride with those back-to-school schedules. In order to keep ACDIS’ event information up-to-date on the chapter pages and help get the word out, please...Read More »
A May 2017 HealthLeaders Intelligence Report on Value-Based Readiness found that 74% of surveyed providers depend on fee-for-service payments, and the remaining 26% rely on value-based payment. Providers, however, say that mix will change to 48% fee-for-service and 52% value-based...Read More »
Before the first word of an appeal is ever written, review the denial chart thoroughly with the hospital’s appeal response ream. An appeal response team does not need to be big and certainly should not follow the usual constraints imposed...Read More »
We started small, with just a handful of members. Their excitement, infectious. Soon ACDIS Director Brian Murphy organized a conference, nearly 200 people attended. There were just 13 speakers at that event. Not a day goes by that we don’t marvel at the growth...Read More »
