The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an analysis stating that roughly 25% of the $3.8 trillion spent annually in the U.S. on healthcare can be characterized as waste.Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently proposed changes to sepsis coding and requested feedback from the public. As part of their ongoing work, the ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee is formulating a comment letter to submit on ACDIS’ behalf, leveraging the feedback from the...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a proposal for changes to ICD-10-CM sepsis related codes after receiving numerous questions and comments about the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) published in 2016.
CMS plans to hold a call to discuss the MS-DRG CC/MCC comprehensive analysis discussed in the fiscal year (FY) 2020 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed and final rules on Tuesday, October 8, 2-3 p.m. eastern.
The call will include a review of the method used to determine...Read More »
Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals this week in the newest round of readmission penalties, according to Kaiser Health News. Medicare estimates that the cuts will cost hospitals $563 million over a year.
Of the 3,129 general hospitals evaluated in the Hospital Readmission...Read More »
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog agency, said in a recent report that CMS lacks complete information on how much funding it allocates for quality programs. Additionally, the GAO questioned whether CMS has the...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Keri Miller, RN, BSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at McLaren Healthcare in Lansing, Michigan, a member of the Michigan ACDIS local...Read More »
Now more than a decade removed from CDI programs’ widespread adoption, CDI professionals have an impact on nearly all aspects of healthcare—from reimbursement, to quality reporting, to denials prevention and appeal writing, to patient care. That’s what the 2019 CDI Week theme celebrates—“CDI...Read More »
