In order to facilitate the growth of outpatient CDI, the ACDIS Advisory Board has written the following white paper. Its goal is to explain what typically constitutes outpatient CDI, and to discuss ways in which CDI specialists can be leveraged to improve documentation associated with outpatient...
Earlier this year, ACDIS learned that several minor diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures, when captured with ICD-10-PCS codes, group to surgical DRGs. This has led to significantly higher rates of reimbursement for these procedures and considerable consternation amongst CDI and coding...
The countdown clock to the ACDIS conference officially clicked over to just 74 days. But time runs even shorter to benefit from the early-bird...Read More »
While many facilities have developed robust denial management teams and have implemented comprehensive procedures for submitting appeals, one of...Read More »
Prior to joining HCPro, I’d been a reporter and editor for my hometown newspaper. It was a terrific job. I loved meeting new people, hearing their...Read More »
On February 23, 2016, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published definition updates for sepsis and septic shock.1 The following is a response from members of the ACDIS Advisory Board. Its purpose is to summarize the importance of these published articles, render...
