by Linnea Archibald
Though it’s still a relatively new offering within ACDIS, the ACDIS CDI Leadership Council’s membership roster has grown to 300 members for the 2022/2023 term. In my opinion, one of the reasons the...Read More »
According to an RACmonitor ‘Monitor Mondays’ listener survey, most responders had not yet begun working on the quality requirements under the social drivers of the health (SDoH) measure despite its impending...Read More »
by Jess Fluegel
Starting a CDI program at a hospital or health system is a huge undertaking. Luckily, over the past few decades since the industry’s inception, frontrunners have become experts in decoding the DNA of a successful CDI program. From sharing example queries and...Read More »
Labor shortages, rising expenses, inflation, and the COVID-19 pandemic are all economic challenges that have contributed to an increase of large healthcare organization bankruptcy filings. In 2022, the number of fourth quarter large healthcare bankruptcy filings were nearly three times the...Read More »
by Jennifer Kurian, BSN, RN, CCDS, in collaboration with Whitney Garcia, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
Over the past year and a half, our CDI team at The Queen’s Health System has had quite the journey in developing a collaborative effort to review all inpatient mortalities. Being the...Read More »
In a recent report by the OIG, incorrect modifier usage led to an estimated $4.9 million in overpayments from 2017 to 2019. While investigating instances of incorrect co-surgery and assistant-at-surgery modifier usage, their...Read More »
by Tamara A. Hicks, MHA, BSN, RN, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O
Hybrid work models ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic as both the public and private healthcare sectors struggled to meet patient care needs with limited staffing and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. CDI...Read More »
