Oceanside Medical Group, a clinic providing mental health services in Santa Monica, California, is disputing an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that estimated the group received $2.6 million in overpayments for...Read More »
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an analysis stating that roughly 25% of the $3.8 trillion spent annually in the U.S. on healthcare can be characterized as waste.Read More »
As of last week, just short of 1,300 cases of e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) have been reported. Cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 49 states, the District of Columbia, and one U.S. territory, with 26 deaths...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently proposed changes to sepsis coding and requested feedback from the public. As part of their ongoing work, the ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee is formulating a comment letter to submit on ACDIS’ behalf, leveraging the feedback from the...Read More »
Recently, we received a question from a member about risk factors associated with providers not taking queries seriously and providing less than helpful responses. The question really goes to the heart of physician engagement.
While surgical staplers are the top medical technology hazard for 2020, another hazard that hits closer to home for CDI professionals also landed a slot in the top 10, according to the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI). Coming in at number six, alarm, alert, and notification fatigue...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a proposal for changes to ICD-10-CM sepsis related codes after receiving numerous questions and comments about the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) published in 2016.
Despite critics claims that Medicare accountable care organizations’ (ACO) savings are “modest” at best, CMS said the programs resulted in nearly $...Read More »