The government will have to comply with its congressionally mandated deadlines for reviewing claims at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level after a federal appeals court this week reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by hospitals.Read More »
Some patients being cared for in a fully electronic health record (EHR) environment were less likely to experience in-hospital adverse events, according to a recent report published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.Read More »
ACDIS members are entitled to one continuing education credit for reading the CDI Journal and taking a 20-question quiz. The CDI Journal is a members-only benefit.Read More »
In the past few months, a number of facilities hosted members of the ACDIS team as we shook the office dust off our shoulders and ventured out for on-site visits to see firsthand how things are with a handful of nearby programs. I enjoyed my visit with Patricia Barry, CDI manager for Cape Cod...Read More »
Even though Promise Hospital of Ascension, a 54-bed transitional care hospital located in Gonzales, Louisiana, closed before the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) began auditing it for fraudulent Kwashiorkor claims, the agency found errors resulting in more than $450,000 in overpayments. In...Read More »
Outpatient coding and billing errors led to more than half of all automated denials by Recovery Auditors, according to the latest RACTrac survey from the American Hospital Association (AHA). Outpatient errors increased by 10% from its third quarter 2014 survey with the nationwide average...Read More »
