Denials & Appeals

Almost half of hospitals in the United States will be getting lower payments for Medicare patients due to their readmission history, according to...Read More »

It used to come annually. Every October, compliance officers across the country would delve into its pages to determine what the Office of the...Read More »

by Linnea Archibald

Typically, CDI specialists’ work happens before the bill drops, while the patient is in the hospital or...Read More »

The following Q&A is an abbreviated transcript of the...Read More »

by Carolyn Riel
Payers deny claims on a wide variety of grounds, but it’s no secret that certain diagnoses seem to be frequent...Read More »

by Carolyn Riel
According to the...Read More »

by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
I'm writing this a few weeks before Halloween, but I'm already feeling haunted. The spirit in...Read More »

by Linnea Archibald
When people talk about CDI’s effect on an organization’s health, often they are referring to the traditional CC...Read More »

by Melissa Varnavas
When I was a kid, my siblings would tease me. They’d tell me I was wrong, that I didn’t know what I was talking...Read More »