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Note from the ACDIS Director | The real face of fraud—it’s not CDI | By Brian Murphy In the stream of e-newsletters that flood my inbox each day I occasionally see reports that give me momentary pause about the CDI profession. For instance, a Medicare Compliance Review of Rush University Medical Center recommends that the hospital refund $10.2 million to Medicare. Part of this amount is from a review of inpatient claims billed with high-severity-level DRG codes that “did not fully comply with Medicare billing requirements.” |
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ACDIS Picks | Journal excerpt: Pass the PEPPER | No, we don’t mean the common table spice. The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report summarizes facility-specific data statistics for Medicare services that may be at risk for improper payments. |
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Career Center | ACDIS year-end Career Center special: Save 15% off all packages and postings! Find your next employee with the ACDIS Career Center! Visit jobs.acdis.com and use code ACDISYES to save 15%! Offer expires January 31, 2018. | |
| Product Spotlight | Do you know which diagnoses move a complication or comorbid condition (CC) into a major CC (MCC) bucket? Even seasoned CDI professionals need to take an annual look at the CC/MCC lists released as part of the inpatient prospective payment system to stay abreast of current coding conventions and documentation improvement opportunities. Join founding ACDIS Advisory Board member William E. Haik, MD, FCCP, CDIP, of DRG Review, Inc., for an in-depth look at the 2018 CC/MCC list and get a seasoned physician’s perspective on how to query for some of the most commonly missed diagnoses. Click here to learn more. | |
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