With the release of the 2017 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule on August 2, 2016, CMS announced a delay in implementation of the NOTICE act. CMS is submitting a revised version of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON...Read More »
The newly proposed Sepsis-3 definition has been the subject of great controversy and consternation since its publication in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on February 23, 2016. That controversial definition discarded...Read More »
What’s the biggest issue related to for reporting respiratory failure diagnoses? It all starts with the definition, said Robert Stein, MD, FCCP, CCDS, associate director of the MS-DRG assurance program for Enjoin, during the ...Read More »
Risk adjustment requires coding and CDI professionals to work together as one team to ensure the capture of the most appropriate risk score for each patient.
If you’re looking for ways to expand your CDI department into outpatient settings and services—all of which can impact risk scores—...Read More »
Q:The coders at my facility have stated auto linking congestive heart failure (CHF), hypertension (HTN), and chronic kidney disease (CKD) to the combination code without any documentation of CHF “due to” HTN. There is no documentation of hypertensive heart disease...Read More »
We are only two days until the core ACDIS team boards a Delta flight from Boston to Atlanta for the 2016 ACDIS conference! We cannot wait to connect with all of your nearly 2,000 attendees!
If you need assistance prior to the event please call our customer service team for assistance 877-...Read More »
As I mentioned in the most recent edition of the CDI Journal, my 96-year-old grandmother recently took a spill. She hit her head on the corner of the kitchen counter, which earned her seven stitches over her left eye plus a compression fracture in her neck. Within 24...Read More »
ICD-10 implementation will arrive in weeks, and many facilities are putting the final touches on their preparations. Yet many have not looked at looming MS-DRG shifts.
Various assessments by CMS, Milliman, and 3M found that the MS-DRG assigned to an ICD-10 claim did not always match the...Read More »