The ACDIS Regulatory Committee, established in 2018, is tasked with the reviewing regulatory policy, coding, and clinical updates, commenting to agencies on behalf of ACDIS, and providing summary, interpretation, and analysis to ACDIS members.
The Committee kicked off a new initiative for...Read More »
According to HCPro’s 2019 coding productivity survey, while coding productivity held steady, missing documentation and unanswered queries bog down coders, reported JustCoding. CDI, according to survey respondents, may be able to help ease these troubles.
A new report from CMS found that providers used Z codes to report social determinants of health (SDOH) for 467,136 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries in 2017, which is nearly 5% more than in 2016. CMS notes that this represents 1.4% of the 33.7 million total Medicare FFS beneficiaries...Read More »
There’s a lot of talk about the transition from sepsis-2 to sepsis-3, but only one conference is bringing you the latest—straight from the source authority.
Attendees of the 13th annual ACDIS conference in their conference registration a pass to attend Sepsis transition...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Payers deny claims on a wide variety of grounds, but it’s no secret that certain diagnoses seem to be frequent denial targets. Each year, respondents to the...Read More »
by Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC
Despite not having a formal denials management team at Penn Highlands Healthcare, I am fortunate enough to assist our coding department when we receive a clinical validation denial. Since I am a respiratory therapist by background,...Read More »
Nobody likes being proved wrong, but it’s not always a bad thing. It’s probably okay to be proven wrong when you think it’s a good idea to feed a shark by hand, or to drink a few beers and then tell your buddies you can bite the head off a...Read More »