Known primarily as a medical transcription and documentation firm, Tennessee-based Spheris was nevertheless the nation’s second-largest provider of clinical documentation technology and services. Earlier this month, the company filed for bankruptcy, according to an article in the ...Read More »
With approximately 30 applications up for consideration, ACDIS had a difficult time voting in four expert individuals to serve up to a three-year term. Incoming 2010 board members include:
James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, managing director in the FTI Healthcare’s Corporate Finance
In January, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission released its fiscal year 2009 annual report. In it, the agency touts a state-wide recovery of more than $300 million—a nearly $70 million recovery jump...Read More »
The nomination period for the 2010 CDI Professional of the Year award is open through March 15, 2010. The 2010 ACDIS annual conference committee will choose one CDI Professional of the Year Award winner and two winners of Recognition of CDI Professional Achievement.
Two new publications from AHIMA offer guidance and best practices for CDI programs. The Clinical Documentation Improvement Toolkit, released in April, and the “Guidance for Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs” (aka the CDI Practice Brief), released in the May Journal of AHIMA, outline...Read More »
The next quarterly conference call is scheduled for Thursday, February 18, 2-3 p.m. E.S.T. ACDIS members have received dial-in instructions via e-mail; if you are an ACDIS member and did not receive your instructions, please contact ACDIS member relations specialist Sue...Read More »
In its January release, The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended Congress adjust Medicare’s hospital inpatient payments over three years to recover overpayments that have resulted from recent documentation...Read More »
Come October 2013, healthcare facilities will switch from reporting ICD-9-CM codes to the internally accepted ICD-10-CM code set.
CMS developed General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) in order to help translate ICD-9 codes to ICD-10. Providers can use the GEMs “as a sort of...Read More »
