Regulatory Committee

Admit type continues to present a significant risk across hospital operations, driven by limited formal education and widespread misinterpretation of national standards. Outside the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) definitions, structured guidance remains scarce, and the NUBC...

Mortality has been a publicly reported quality metric on Medicare.gov for nearly a decade. This metric allows for the comparison of death rates across various conditions...

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...

Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) are digital tools used to assess patient care quality, based on data extracted from electronic health records (EHR). These measures are designed to ensure that healthcare delivery aligns with evidence-based standards and improves patient outcomes....

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. 

2024 hot topic list

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!

As part of the...

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O

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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...