CMS has released voluntary recommendations for elective surgeries in an effort to encourage providers to cancel non-essential procedures until the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, HealthLeaders Media reported. The administration urged everyone to conserve critical resources such as...Read More »
CMS announced the release of an updated ICD-10 MS-DRG grouper software package to accommodate the new diagnosis code, U07.1 for COVID-19, effective with discharges on and after April 1, 2020.
The announcement notes that this will replace the grouper software package V37.1 that was...Read More »
ECRI Institute recently published its annual list of the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns. The goal of this list is to help facilities’ efforts for proactively identifying and responding to threats to patient safety.
ECRI notes that this list was created before the COVID-19 outbreak...Read More »
Humana recently launched an initiative aimed to help clinicians address nonmedical health risk factors. The social determinants of health (SDOH) value-based program targets these nonmedical issues such as homelessness, inconsistent access to food, and housing instability, Healthcare Dive...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced during the March 18 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting that a new code specifically for reporting COVID-19 will be available for use starting on April 1, 2020. The code will be housed in Chapter 22, Codes for...Read More »
In a special edition of the ACDIS Podcast: Talking CDI, ACDIS Director Brian Murphy hosted four CDI leaders on how their organizations and CDI departments are handling the current COVID-19 pandemic.
While the live show experienced technical difficulties and had to be discontinued...Read More »
The ACDIS leadership team is closely monitoring the events unfolding with COVID-19 as we know you are too. Many of you are planning your events; spring has traditionally been a busy time for our local chapters.
Please know first and foremost that your health, safety, and well-being are...Read More »
According to an audit from the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), a 253-bed hospital in Topeka, Kansas, received millions in overpayments because of incorrectly billing Medicare.
The OIG audit report states that Saint Francis Health Center...Read More »
