by Melissa Varnavas, CPC, ACDIS associate director
In the fall of 2009 Leah Taylor, RN, CCDS, and Jennifer Love, RN, BA, CCDS, president and vice president of the North Carolina ACDIS chapter respectively, challenged members of their local chapter to earn...Read More »
As always, the ACDIS office will be closed intermittently over the month of December in observance of the winter holidays. Specifically, the office will be entirely closed Friday, December 23, 2022, till Tuesday, December 27, 2022, and Friday, December 30, 2022, till Tuesday, January 3, 2023. ...Read More »
Nine hospitals in seven states will pay the United States more than $9.4 million combined to resolve claims that they overcharged Medicare between 2000 and 2008, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release....Read More »
The ACDIS CDI Work Group is pleased to present the results of its first CDI staffing survey. The results are based on approximately 85 responses from CDI department managers on a wide range of questions concerning CDI department staffing.
The goal of the survey is to help CDI managers...Read More »
In April, CMS held an ICD-10 conference for software vendors, billing services, and clearinghouses to discuss the ICD-10 and Version 5010 transitions. The goal of the meeting was to openly discuss implementation issues such as testing and resources that to help make the transition easier. The...Read More »
Shortly after releasing its Clinical Documentation Improvement Toolkit in April, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) released its Guidance for Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in the May issue of the Journal of AHIMA.
CMS has been holding a number of open forum calls regarding its Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) programs. Dubbed “Nationwide RAC 101 Calls” these sessions covered the basics of RAC reviews, each focusing on a different provider area.
The first call on April 28, intended for all acute...Read More »
Effective January 1, 2011, CMS will start to accept up to 25 codes for secondary diagnoses. The change, listed in a March 2010 MedLearn Matters article and also listed in the...Read More »
