“Simply put, the advent of EHRs and e-queries changed how CDI specialists work—and the days of misplaced paper queries and incoherent penmanship are all but gone,” according to a special report out from ACDIS and HealthLeaders Media.Read More »
“Ever since CMS announced its goal of transitioning payments to alternative and value based care models, hospitals and healthcare systems have been implementing new processes and technology to support the shift from fee-for-service to value based reimbursement. Most are already participating,”...Read More »
Though value-based care is still in the early stages of adoption, respondents to HealthLeaders Media’s Value-Based Readiness Survey expect robust growth in the share of patients in value-based programs over the next three years, HealthLeaders Media reported.Read More »
The newly released Coding Clinic, Second Quarter, 2017, touches on diagnoses related to neurology such as Parkinson’s disease, encephalopathy, and stroke, as well as questions related to nicotine and drug dependence, among other items, some of which previously lead to discrepancies...Read More »
CMS penalized more than half of hospitals participating in its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) from fiscal year 2013 to 2017, according to a recent Health Affairs study,...Read More »
Diane Smith, RN, CCDS, a member of the Maine ACDIS Chapter, works at Pen Bay Medical Center in beautiful Rockport. A Connecticut native, she moved to Michigan but found she missed the east coast. On a trip to Maine she fell in love with the beauty of the area and the food. She talked her husband...Read More »