CDI Week provides a centerpiece for many chapter events nationwide, giving them a fun reason to celebrate their local CDI superheroes. CDI Week 2019 takes place in just a couple weeks, September 15-20, and many chapters already have plans on the books.Read More »
Sometimes writing for the ACDIS Blog feels like screaming into a pillow…you do it for your own benefit, because there’s no one to hear you. I’m very grateful that Brian Murphy, Melissa Varnavas, Linnea Archibald, and Carolyn Riel let me...Read More »
I am terrible at multiple-choice standardized tests. People laugh when I tell them the hardest test I ever took was the CPR exam—yes, that CPR test. It is not that I lack competence in CPR (although it has been a few years...Read More »
CMS proposes to extrapolate results from Medicare Advantage (MA) audits and apply an overall error rate for all plans, according to an article in FierceHealthcare...Read More »
Hospitals may be trying to avoid readmitting patients in order to sidestep CMS penalties under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), according to a new study published in The BMJ.
Q: When a patient comes in with two diagnoses and the documentation reflects that either could be the principal diagnosis, do we choose the principal as the diagnosis that is being treated more intensely, or do we choose the higher paying DRG? Is it true that when a patient comes in...Read More »