ACDIS is pleased to donate $1,000 of the proceeds from the 10th annual conference bookstore sales to The Josie King Foundation, a non-profit foundation started by Josie’s mother, Sorrel King, who delivered the general session address on Day 1 of the conference.Read More »
President-elect Donald Trump selected Republican Representative Tom Price, 62, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia to head the Department of Health and Human Services and Seema Verma, founder of the Indiana health policy consulting firm SVC Inc., as his pick for administrator of the Centers for...Read More »
CMS released its list of quality measures under consideration (MUC) in November and the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) begun its annual review of the list, according to a blog post from the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC).
ACDIS Advisory Board member Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, CDI manager at Penn State Hershey Medical Center brings along her team Marcy Miles, MT, (ASCP), MBA, manager of quality and process excellence, Melissa Macguire, RN, CDI educator, and...Read More »
Out of roughly 3,000 hospitals across the country, more than 1,600 will have an increase in their base operating MS-DRG payments, according to a CMS November 1 release, regarding...Read More »
Improper hospital claims dropped from $10.45 billion to $4.42 billion from the 2014 report period (July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013) to the 2016 report period (July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015), according...Read More »