CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 27

Membership update: Share your CDI journey with the ACDIS community

June 15, 2017
ACDIS Guidance

The ACDIS community is a close-knit group—sharing stories, offering help and advice. One of the many things the ACDIS team loves doing is disseminating members’ stories to the larger ACDIS membership. Sometimes this takes the form of an interview on a specific topic for the CDI Journal...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 27

Local chapter updates: Leadership networking phone call next week

June 15, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Education

The Chapter Advisory Board invites members of local chapters and networking groups to a telephone conference networking call on Thursday, June 29, at noon, eastern.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 27

Measuring the effect of HCCs, part 3

June 13, 2017
CDI Expansion, Clinical & Coding

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Revenue Cycle Advisor. For more information about Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs), read ...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 11, Issue 26

Meet the CAB member: Sherri Clark serves Tennessee CDI professionals

February 5, 2018
ACDIS Guidance, Education

Editor’s note: There are more than 40 local chapters and networking groups across the country and internationally, each led by a team of dedicated volunteers. To support these volunteers the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 26

Note from the Instructor: Take a road trip this summer

June 8, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP

I recently taught a CDI Boot Camp at a large, multi-site organization, with attendees coming from CDI, HIM, and quality departments from four different sites. We began the week discussing the Official Guidelines for Coding and...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 26

News: CMS revises 2-midnight audit process

June 8, 2017
News, Quality & Regulatory

CMS changed its selection process for medical records for short-stay reviews under the 2-midnight rule. This could be problematic for some organizations, says Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM, vice president at R1 Physician Advisory Services in Chicago, according to...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 26

News: JAMA study reveals massive amount of copy-paste in EHR progress notes

June 8, 2017
News, Policies & Procedures

Any CDI specialist who’s gone through a transition from paper records to an electronic health record (EHR) system knows the new technology is far from perfect. In the latest finding, a study by the Journal of...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 26

News: Insurers to pay $32.5 million for claims of risk-scoring fraud

June 8, 2017
Clinical & Coding, News

Freedom Health and Optimum Healthcare, two large health insurers based in Florida, are paying $32.5 million to resolve a federal and state investigation into claims they defrauded CMS by submitting risk adjustment scores that improperly inflated their Medicare Advantage reimbursement,...Read More »

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