Quality metrics and measurements are a crucial and prominent feature of CDI work. Because claims data is increasingly used to determine performance metrics on quality measures, and because the clinical criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of a given patient are determined by the accuracy of...
Today’s guest is Kim Conner, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist for ACDIS and HCPro, where she teaches ACDIS boot camps and serves as a subject matter expert for the...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a newly proposed set of price transparency requirements under the outpatient...Read More »
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...
In 2019 and 2020, Medicare overpaid $22.5 million for physician services while beneficiaries were hospital inpatients or at skilled nursing...Read More »
From 2017 to 2021, the top 5% of doctors who conducted atherectomies (about 90 physicians) accounted for more than a third of all procedures and...Read More »
