Local ACDIS chapters provide a vital networking and educational service to clinical documentation improvement specialists in a given state, geographic region, or specialty area. These groups are led by volunteers who help hosts organize events and further ACDIS’ mission to provide professionals...Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) expressed concerns about the 2017 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule, including the documentation and coding adjustment (DCA), changes to disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, and the implementation of various quality...Read More »
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists and case managers share a common goal but often are not on the same page when it comes to improving documentation within the hospital, says Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS, director of enterprise solutions for Zirmed, in...Read More »
Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington, has had a successful inpatient CDI program for seven years. In spring 2014, the facility, which encompasses 32 clinics and two acute care hospitals, began discussing CDI in the ambulatory setting, says...Read More »
For CDI specialists, the daunting landscape of changing healthcare initiatives may seem like a broad expanse of impenetrable woods. It's an ecosystem which includes quality-based initiatives related to readmission reductions, 30-day mortality, Patient Safety Indicators, complications, present on...Read More »
CMS underpaid Medicare Advantage plans for the cost of treating patients with multiple chronic conditions, which the organization admitted to in November. However, a new report from healthcare consulting company, Avalere Health, shines a light on some of the specifics. Read More »
Q: I am looking for additional clarification regarding the recent AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS concerning diabetes and the use of the word “with.” While the examples often used in Coding Clinic are specific, the actual...Read More »
Call me unorthodox, but let’s start at the back of the latest edition of the American Hospital Association (AHA)’s Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS for this review. Here, on pp. 36–37, we have the clarifications, including some potentially confusing—and possibly conflicting—information...Read More »
