ACDIS Guidance

Will CDI professionals’ salaries have increased since 2017? Will the trend of role diversification continue in 2018? Will this year’s salary...Read More »

Like all reporting structures, CMS updates its Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) list each year. Recently, version 23 was released, and it...Read More »

by Melissa Varnavas
It’s that time of the year again: time to pull down the tome that is the inpatient prospective payment system (...Read More »

By Sam Antonios, MD, MMM, FACP, SFHM, CPE, CCDS
Consider the story of a patient—say, a pneumonia patient—whose treatment cost a lot...Read More »

FEATURES
7 Concurrent coding
12 CMS-HCC version...Read More »

By Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS

As part of my consulting practice, I do a lot of work on appeals, so the news that...Read More »

Much like concurrent CDI reviews, the concurrent coding process necessitates that the coding professional follow the chart throughout the patient’...Read More »

Q: What is difference between the severity of illness (SOI)/risk of...Read More »

by Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS
The clinical world now has a new set of criteria for malnutrition,...Read More »

When a patient comes into the hospital and, despite the medical staff’s best efforts, dies, the documentation in the record should accurately...Read More »