For calendar years (CYs) 2012 and 2013, Medicare overpaid Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Omaha more than $111,000 for 19 inpatient and outpatient...Read More »
Hospitals are reporting a decrease in improper payments, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) annual Agency...Read More »
Back in the day (oh, about nine years or so ago), I found myself tucked into my office late into a Thursday evening skimming the tome that was the...Read More »
Recovery auditors collectively identified and corrected more than a million claims for improper payments, resulting in $2.57 billion dollars being...Read More »
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about hospitals billing for Kwashiorkor, a form of severe protein malnutrition typically found in third-...Read More »
This sample was reviewed and approved by the ACDIS Resource Library Committee in 2023. The committee noted that if you use this resource, the basic format needs to be adjusted to the specificities of your organization.
Karen Chase, MS, BSN, RN, CCDS, assistant director of clinical...
The MS-DRG shift driven by the switch to ICD-10 will impact diagnoses throughout ICD-10-CM, says Gloryanne Bryant, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CDIP,...Read More »
Many CDI programs are shifting their focus to include some sort of quality review. One of those initiatives is Hospital Value-Based Purchasing. ...Read More »