Clinical & Coding

By Linnea Archibald

It’s a hot topic in the CDI world: who’s qualified to be a CDI professional? ACDIS as an organization...Read More »

Surgical patients who received nutritional intervention during their hospital stay saw their 30-day readmission rate cut nearly in half, falling...Read More »

ICD-11 reflects critical advances in science and medicine and is the first code set revision to be well integrated with EHRs and information...Read More »

While ACDIS as an association holds the belief that CDI professionals come from a variety of backgrounds, each bringing unique skills and...Read More »

By Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CEMC, CRC, CCDS

As I sat down to summarize the proposed fiscal year (FY) 2019 ICD-10-CM...Read More »

The recently released FY 2019 ICD-10-CM update adds some codes to allow additional diagnoses to be reported while adding others for greater...Read More »

Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS, principals at Pinson and Tang, LLC answered these questions after their April 10, 2018...Read More »

By Linnea Archibald

The diagnosis of malnutrition has...Read More »

By Amy Sanderson, MD

The term “dysphagia” has many synonyms used by providers in medical documentation. However, not all of these...Read More »

By Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CCM, CDIP

A common theme that plays a critical role in portraying the patient encounter...Read More »