The ACDIS Podcast

With special guest Analyn Dolopo-Simon, ACM, CCDS, the CDI Program Director for UCSD Health in San Diego, CA. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, Associate Editorial Director for ACDIS.

To view "CMS will pay hospitals $1.9 billion in bonuses for inpatient care" as reported on In the News, please visit the Modern Healthcare website: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/payment/cms-will-pay-hospitals-19-billion-bonuses-inpatient-care

To learn more about UCSD's T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion, please visit their website at https://medschool.ucsd.edu/vchs/compassion/Pages/default.aspx

With special guest Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. She is the developer and lead instructor for the ACDIS boot camp line and an ACDIS subject matter expert. Prescott is a former CDI manager and a nursing manager with experience in med/surg, ICU, PACU, and endoscopy. She is also co-author of our upcoming indispensable CDI reference, the ACDIS Pocket Guide.

To view the CDC supplement to the ICD-10-CM Official Coding Guidelines for coding encounters related to e-cigarette/vaping product use as featured on In the News, please visit: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/Vapingcodingguidance2019_10_17_2019.pdf

To learn more or to purchase a copy of the 2020 ACDIS Pocket Guide, please visit: https://hcmarketplace.com/2020-acdis-pocket-guide

With special guest Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, a clinical documentation integrity specialist with Sutter West Bay Area in San Francisco. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for HCPro and ACDIS. Our thanks to 3M Health Information Systems for their support of the program, the first of a three-part clinical series.

To download a copy of the slides presented on today's podcast, please click here.

To view a copy of the CDC recommendation for adoption of sepsis-3, please visit: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/SEPSIS_tabular_final_dp.pdf.

To comment to the CDC on the proposed adoption of sepsis-3, send your comments to: [email protected].

To order a copy of the 2020 ACDIS Pocket Guide, please visit: https://hcmarketplace.com/2020-acdis-pocket-guide

With special guests Haaris Ali, MD, CDIP, the regional director of CDI for Prospect Holdings, and Cesar Limjoco, MD, the chief medical officer of T-Medicus. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for HCPro and ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts.

To view CDC Tally of Vaping-Related Injuries Now at 805 (since revised upwards to 1,080, with 18 deaths, as of October 1) please visit the Kaiser Health News website: https://khn.org/morning-breakout/cdc-tally-of-vaping-related-injuries-now-at-805/.

To view The Next Epidemic: Vaping, visit childrenshospitals.org: https://www.childrenshospitals.org/Newsroom/Childrens-Hospitals-Today/Spring-2019/Articles/Next-Epidemic-Vaping-Teens

With special guests Valerie A. Bica, RN, BSN, CPN, the lead CDI specialist at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, and Joan Oliver, MHA, BSN, RN, ACM, CCDS, a CDI specialist covering the cardiothoracic and CCU teams at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert.

To view the 2020 IPPS final rule and the CC/MCC tables, visit the CMS website: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/AcuteInpatientPPS/FY2020-IPPS-Final-Rule-Home-Page.html

To read Price hikes, upcoding drive Massachusetts inpatient spending, as featured on In the News, please click here: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/operations/price-hikes-upcoding-drive-massachusetts-inpatient-spending

With special guest Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS, the manager of CDI for Penn State Health in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert.

To read "Tell Congress to pass the Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act and close the 'observation status gap'" as featured on In the News, please visit: https://acmaweb.salsalabs.org/acmaobservationstatuspetition/index.html

To apply to speak at the 2020 ACDIS conference (note: deadline is Friday Sept. 13; accepted speakers receive free admission) please click here: https://acdis.org/articles/conference-corner-2020-speaker-application-period-extended-friday-september-13

With special guests Yvonne Whitley RN, BSN, CPC, CRC, CDEO, CCDS-O, manager of the ambulatory CDI team at Novant Health in North Carolina, and Jessica M. Vaughn MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CRC, the manager of outpatient clinical documentation excellence at Wake Forest Baptist Health, an academic organization in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the associate editorial director for ACDIS.

To read “Baylor wins FCA (false claims act) case over alleged fraudulent upcoding" as featured on In the News, please visit the Modern Healthcare website: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/legal/baylor-wins-fca-case-over-alleged-fraudulent-upcoding.

To apply to speak at the 2020 ACDIS conference (May 5-8, Las Vegas), please visit acdis.org: https://acdis.org/articles/conference-corner-acdis-2020-conference-speaker-application-window-extended-sept-13

With special guest James Manz, MD, a consultant in spine and neurological surgery with the Mayo Clinic Health System in northwest Wisconsin. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts.

To read a summary of the 2020 OPPS proposed rule and the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule as discussed on In the News, go to: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/cy-2020-medicare-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-system-and-ambulatory-surgical-center

To take advantage of the early bird discount (and enter a drawing to win tickets to a brewery tour) to the upcoming ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI conference in Austin, Texas on November 14-15, please visit: https://acdis.org/acdis-symposium

With special guest Dawn R. Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, the CDI manager of education at Ardent Health Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Click here to view the Medscape article ‘Big Three’ Diseases Account for Most Diagnostic Error Harm as featured on In the News.

Learn more about the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI here: https://acdis.org/acdis-symposium.

With special guests Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, system director of CDI and coding at Baptist Health System in Louisville, Kentucky, and Regene’ Collier, RN-BC, BSN, COS-C, HCS-D, the home health coding/CDI specialist manager at Baptist Health System. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI education specialist for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts.

To read CEO outlines plan to save Hahnemann University Hospital as featured on In the News, please click here.

To read Poor documentation training cited as one reason for possible hospital closure, please click here.

To visit the AHCC website and its home health resources, please go to https://ahcc.decisionhealth.com/.

To take the poll on whether ACDIS should change the "i" in its name from improvement to integrity, please click here.