By Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA/CGMA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS
A coding audit may be conducted by internal staff or external entities (often by insurers paying for the care). When planning to implement an internal coding auditing program, the type of reviews, focus areas, and review...Read More »
That’s the theme of Nurses Week in 2018 and it reflects so well how nurses have affected the profession of CDI over the years. Of course, nurses share this profession of CDI with many...Read More »
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has rescinded its recently released stroke guidelines, publishing a correction in which large portions of the document have been deleted.Read More »
Charlene Compher, PhD, RD, LDN, FASPEN, and Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, will present “GLIM: The New Malnutrition Clinical Criteria and Implications for the CDI Profession,” on Day 1 of the ACDIS conference. Compher is a professor of nutrition science at the University of Pennsylvania School...Read More »
Q:Is it a coder’s responsibility to properly sequence secondary diagnoses or is this a process that happens when the codes are transferred to the super bill? My concern is with making sure that heavily weighted secondary...Read More »
ACDIS received an email from a member asking what the most common queried diagnoses are among CDI professionals. While we didn’t have the answer immediately, ACDIS ran a poll probing that exact question.Read More »