Look who’s going to the 10th Annual ACDIS conference in Las Vegas! Edna I Betances-Harold, CDIP, CCDS, CCS, of UF Health Shands Hospital and Academic Health Center, won the jackpot thanks to the Florida ACDIS Chapter community. Florida chapter members pay annual dues to help defray...Read More »
by Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, CDIP, COBGC
As CDI specialists and coders, it is our job to document and code appropriately for the care being provided. For CDI professionals working with physician practice settings, identifying documentation to support chronic care...Read More »
We’re officially 80 days until the annual ACDIS Conference. As you begin to plan your itinerary, we’ll be posting regular updates to keep you in the loop on speakers, sessions, special events, and...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, CCDS
Your CDI program successfully obtained consistent results over the last few years, and all is right within the CDI world. Then, the facility case-mix index (CMI) unexpectedly drops. Provided it rebounds, one or two months below its usual average...Read More »
A physician admits a patient with dementia, yet provides no further definitive diagnosis. The CDI specialist recognizes the scenario as similar to a case reviewed the week before, so she reaches out to the case management (CM) team to see whether they have additional insight. The CDI...Read More »
CMS continues to transition from volume-based to value-based payments and Alternative Payment Models (APM), including bundled payment models, with the goal to have 30% of its payments tied to APMs by 2016 and 50% by 2018. In 2011, CMS sought out providers to test four broadly defined bundled...Read More »
