By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
It’s fall—a season for football and pumpkin lattes. That means it’s also time for the Third and Fourth Quarter American Hospital Association (AHA) Coding Clinic releases. Both were released on the same day and, because one...Read More »
Kelly Ellis, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, is the director of coding, CDI, and compliance at the Ohio State University Healthcare. She has been in the CDI field for about 10 years and worked in the coding and compliance field before that.Read More »
Abstract
Provision of nutrition care is vital to the health and well-being of any patient who enters the health care system, whether in the ambulatory, inpatient, or long-term care setting. Interdisciplinary professionals— nurses, physicians, advanced practice providers,...Read More »
The average outpatient visit in the U.S. costs nearly $500 and the average inpatient stay costs more than $22,000, according to a global study from the...Read More »
Thirty-eight hospitals filed a lawsuit against the U.S. HHS on January 18, alleging that that HHS Secretary Alex Azar overstepped his authority when he finalized an OPPS policy that cuts...Read More »
By Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS
The role of the CDI specialist is in constant flux. When I started out as a CDI specialist, my hospital wanted me to focus on reimbursement. Having one focus gave me a clear path and little conflict when I was educating and querying providers...Read More »
Last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that Congress provide a 2% market-basket update for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2020, ...Read More »
