CMS released the FY 2020 IPPS proposed rule on Tuesday, April 23. Coming in at 1,824 pages long, the rule includes nearly 1,500 CC/MCC designation changes, 324 changes to the ICD-10-CM codes, updates to...Read More »
First-year residents spend almost five times more hours on indirect patient care than on face-to-face patient care, according to the results of the iCOMPARE trial published in the JAMA Internal...Read More »
Sacramento-based Sutter Health LLC and several affiliates will pay $30 million to settle allegations that they were overpaid after submitting inflated information about the dire...Read More »
Following their April 4 meeting, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create national coding guidelines for ED visits by 2022.Read More »
To our ACDIS members and CDI professionals interested in the CCDS and CCDS-O examinations,
Below please find an official release from our testing partner PSI regarding additional safety measures being put into place at our more than 300 testing centers nationwide as a result...Read More »
Insufficient documentation led to approximately $23 billion in improper Medicare payments in FY 2017, the GAO said in a March 27 report. GAO recommended that CMS assess and strengthen documentation requirements and medical reviews to more...Read More »