As part of the fourth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.
As part of the fourth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.
Due to the continued delay in awarding new Recovery Auditor (RA) contracts, CMS made modifications to the current RA contracts allowing them to...Read More »
If you haven’t seen the OIG report “Medicare Compliance Review of University of Cincinnati Medical Center [UCMC] for Calendar Years 2010 and 2011...Read More »
Of all the Recovery Auditor denials, hospitals reported appealing about 50% with more than a 50% success rate—it’s 50/50 game that hospitals...Read More »
In the first half of the 2014 fiscal year, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported more than $3 billion in audit recoveries, nearly $3...Read More »
As more facilities face the specter of reimbursement losses related to the Readmission Reduction Program, CDI programs may be asked to take a...Read More »
Physician evaluation and management (E/M) payments cost Medicare $32.3 billion in 2010—about 30% of all Part B payments that year—and of that...Read More »
Sara Baine, MSN-Ed, CCDS, and Rhonda Peppers, RN, BS, CCDS, present a professional approach to querying for SOI/ROM, to deomnstrate the effects on the medical record, financial impact on the facility and physician, educational needs for CDIs and providers, and how SOI/ROM improves quality data...
