The auditing arm of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to crack down on hospital performance in the areas of reporting of...Read More »
Coders and CDI specialists need to understand the implications coding and sequencing may have on readmissions data and cohort selection, says ...Read More »
Documentation improvement staff often struggle with principal diagnosis selection. A clear understanding of the definition of principal diagnosis...Read More »
The quarterly reports issued by the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER)contain large amounts of data on how a...Read More »
As part of the first Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Nancy Rae Ignatowicz, RN, MBA, CCDS, system manager of clinical documentation for Provena Health in Frankfort...
