With the release of the 2017 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule on August 2, 2016, CMS announced a delay in implementation of the NOTICE act. CMS is submitting a revised version of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON...Read More »
Melinda Scharf, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, regional clinical documentation integrity educator at St. Joseph Hospital in Irvine, California, has worked in CDI since 2008 after serving as a pediatric nurse for 10 years and an ER nurse for 11.
The newly proposed Sepsis-3 definition has been the subject of great controversy and consternation since its publication in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on February 23, 2016. That controversial definition discarded...Read More »
Like dozens of other attendees at this year’s ACDIS Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Mercedita Morales, RN, BSN stopped by our booth to sign up for an ACDIS membership. Little did she know that she would be the 5,000th person to become a part of our association. A CDI...Read More »
What’s the biggest issue related to for reporting respiratory failure diagnoses? It all starts with the definition, said Robert Stein, MD, FCCP, CCDS, associate director of the MS-DRG assurance program for Enjoin, during the ...Read More »
by Wendy Frushon Tsaninos, RN, MSTD, CCDS, CMSRN, CCS
One of my favorite occupational movies is Pushing Tin. Its take on air traffic control is from before 9/11, and just to make it more interesting, it stars actors familiar to the Gen-X population (John Cusack, Billy...Read More »
Physician advisors serve a variety of purposes beyond documentation improvement, including assisting case management, utilization review, quality, and coding departments, among other assignments, ...Read More »
Risk adjustment requires coding and CDI professionals to work together as one team to ensure the capture of the most appropriate risk score for each patient.
If you’re looking for ways to expand your CDI department into outpatient settings and services—all of which can impact risk scores—...Read More »
