The Tennessee ACDIS Chapter meets Friday, July 15, at LifePoint Health in Brentwood, Tennessee. For information, contact Sherri Clark SClark@mc.utmck.edu.
There are 1,974 additions, 311 deletions, and 425 revisions for the 2017 ICD-10-CM code set, according to a statement published by CMS. The resulting total of 71,486 diagnosis codes was released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on June 24.Read More »
The backlog of Medicare appeals could be cleared by 2021, according to a proposed rule released by CMS and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services on June 28.
The fiscal year (FY) 2017 IPPS proposed rule included some significant changes to Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 90, one of which is a new name: The Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite. A fact sheet recently released by the measure's owner, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...Read More »
An email was sent to local chapter leaders on June 20, with a number of reminders and chapter business requests. If you are a chapter leader and did not receive that email please contact ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas at ...Read More »
The new ACDIS Career Center allows you to upload your resume, browse open positions, and sign up for alerts about new jobs specific to your criteria. If you’re looking to hire, we have job posting options (discounted for ACDIS members) as well as the ability to browse our resume database. ...Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is concerned about the documentation and coding reduction, changes to disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, and the implementation of many of CMS’s quality programs detailed in the CMS IPPS Proposed Rule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, according to a ...Read More »
Recovery Auditor medical record requests and automated and complex denials all fell slightly in the first quarter of 2016, as did the average number of medical record requests per hospital, which decreased slightly since the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the latest RACTrac report...Read More »
