Quarterly throughout the year, you will find a new topic or question along with the committee’s findings posted to this page and publicized in CDI Strategies. Please note that previous years' lists appear below the 2024 table.
Wondering how to interpret the latest PSI 15 guidelines? Looking for clarification on a Coding Clinic or update in the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting? We want to hear from you!
While everyone involved in health services has an interest in providing quality care, many quality management initiatives are based on regulatory requirements from CMS. As these programs originate from federal initiatives, the ACDIS Regulatory Committee has designed a road map, a quality map, to...
Beginning in Calendar Year (CY) 2013, hospitals were provided the opportunity to voluntarily submit data for eCQMs. These quality measures were developed specifically to allow an electronic health record (EHR) system, certified to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
Each fall we join our revenue cycle, quality, and coding colleagues in a race to read and understand the impacts of the newest ICD-10-CM coding changes and the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule. As CDI professionals, we can have influence and impact with these changes. ...
Amid the many recent COVID-19 coding updates, it may have been easy to overlook Medicare’s new COVID-19 treatments add-on payment (NCTAP). The NCTAP is applied in addition to the MS-DRG payment for inpatient cases.
ACDIS would like to thank Margaret Foley, PhD, CCS, RHIA, Kay Piper, RHIA...
The ACDIS Regulatory Committee is submitting three proposals on the fiscal year (FY) 2022 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and is asking for your support. Please download the sample support template, fill in the name of your institution (with their permission) and/or submit on behalf...
The ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee met September 8-9 to consider revisions to ICD-10 code set. The ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee is a joint effort of CMS and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)....
