Providers could see adjustments ranging from negative 4% to positive 12% in 2019, and from negative 9% to positive 27% in 2022 from new pay-for-performance measures. The program is designed to be budget neutral with high performers eligible for additional bonuses. In other words, providers face...Read More »
We’re counting down the days until the 2015 annual conference in San Antonio. If you’re as excited as we are, you won’t want to miss our weekly speaker Q&A on the ACDIS Blog to get a feel for the sessions we’ll be offering and start planning your itinerary.Read More »
Basically, HCCs predict an individual beneficiary’s healthcare expenditures relative to the average beneficiary. CMS uses the scores to adjust payments based on the health status and demographic characteristics of a beneficiary.Read More »
When Melanie Halpern, RN-BC, MBA, CCDS, CCRA, CDI manager at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, began her CDI career in 2004, she didn’t have international aspirations. When she found out about the International Surgical Health Initiative (ISHI), she had to get involved. We...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI
Some common disease processes require certain types of care. Healthcare specialties often create such standard care intervention checklists to increase efficiency in overall treatments, and to drive notable...Read More »
In many ways, CDI efforts in the critical access hospital (CAH) setting mirror the typical duties of those working in the short-term acute care world. Just ask specialists to identify their top documentation trouble spots.Read More »
Ask pediatricians to consider the following documentation opportunities when writing their history and physicals (H&P), consults, progress notes, and discharge summaries, focusing on conditions present at the time of admission.Read More »
The CDI specialist’s role is changing. It’s no longer enough to query for diagnoses and report corresponding codes. The diagnosis must be backed up by clinical indicators and thorough documentation—or it risks being overturned by an auditing agency. Read More »
