Speech-to-text transcription solutions have been touted as a way to reduce physician documentation burdens, but a study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine suggests that such systems are not a complete replacement for human scribes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published ICD-10-CM Official Coding and Reporting Guidelines for COVID-19, reported Revenue Cycle Advisor. These new guidelines are effective April 1 through September 30, 2020.
A clinical bulletin recently published by the American College of Cardiology reported that the case fatality rate for patients with COVID-19 who have...Read More »
CMS has published the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Rate Announcement, which finalizes the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D payment methodologies for CY 2021. CMS says that the announcement addresses comments received on Parts I...Read More »
Things are changing at a daily pace as the COVID-19 pandemic unfurls. To help CDI professionals navigate these challenging times, here’s a roundup of all the COVID-19 resources ACDIS has published in the last few weeks:
With a surge of COVID-19 patients expected at the nation's hospitals, children’s hospitals can be part of the solution to support broader communities,...Read More »
Anthem is currently facing a False Claims Act lawsuit from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for submitting inaccurate diagnosis codes to get a higher Medicare...Read More »
The state of New York issued an executive order directly effecting the work of health information management (HIM) professionals in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the state of New York has over 83,000...Read More »