With special guest Sheila M. Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS, the national director of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) education at Tenet Healthcare in Dallas, Texas. Co-hosted by ACDIS editor Linnea Archibald.

To view $188.1M Providence Health alleged upcoding lawsuit set for potential dismissal in January as featured on In the News, please click here.

To learn more about or order a copy of CDI Workbook: Investigating Complex Cases and Formulating Queries as featured on ACDIS Update, please click here.

With special guest Karen Elmore, RN, BSN, CCDS, documentation quality coordinator for BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, Missouri. Elmore serves on the ACDIS Chapter Advisory Board and is a chapter leader for the ACDIS Heart of Missouri local chapter. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the Associate Editorial Director for ACDIS. 

To read CMS Delays E/M Payment Changes to 2021 in Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule as covered on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Brian Cui, RHIA, CDIP, an HIM professional with more than 15 years of experience in a variety of roles in health information technology, clinical documentation improvement, adult education, and social media marketing. Brian is founder of Medical Coding Geek, and the creator and host of Not Elsewhere Classified, a podcast created to share stories and insights from professionals in the medical coding, HIM, and CDI community. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS.

Check out the Not Elsewhere Classified podcast here.

To view "Proposed changes to Medicare Advantage audits could put insurers on the hook for billions" as covered on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, principal of Pinson and Tang in Chattanooga, TN. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. 

To download the slides presented on today's program, please click here. Source: GLIM Criteria for the Diagnosis of Malnutrition: A Consensus Report From the Global Clinical Nutrition Community (in press) online pre-publication.

To view the article "UHC adopts sepsis-3 criteria" as presented on In the News, please click here.

This interview on Building a Best Practice HCC Audit Program with Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of staffing services for TrustHCS, was re-recorded after sound problems experienced during the original ACDIS Radio broadcast on Oct. 10, 2018.

With Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of staffing services for TrustHCS.

To view the article Medicare Eases Readmission Penalties for Safety-Net Hospitals as featured on In the News, please click here.

To learn more about CDI Workbook: Investigating Complex Cases and Formulating Queries as featured on ACDIS Update, please click here.

Please note that we experienced some sound issues during the recording of this progam.

With special guests Pauline O’Dowd, RN, BSc, CCRN, CCDS, CDIP, managing director of CDI at Huron Healthcare in Chicago, IL, and Gerri Birg, MSN, RN, CCDS, the national lead for Huron’s Clinical Documentation Improvement solution practice.  Co-hosted by Penny Richards, coordinator for the ACDIS Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) credential program. 

To learn more about the CCDS certification, please visit https://acdis.org/certification.

Talking denials and appeals, with special guests Timothy N. Brundage, MD, CCDS, medical director of the Brundage Group, and Brett Hoggard, MD, chief medical officer of Brundage Group.  Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS.

To view a slideshow of the FY 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule and the documentation and payment changes to E/M codes as detailed on "In the News," please click here.

With special guest James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, president of CDIMD-Physician Champions, a Nashville-based group of physicians, coders, and clinicians engaged nationwide as CDI physician advisors, ICD-10 medical informaticists, and DRG and HCC compliance advocates. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS.

To download Dr. Kennedy's slides presented on today's program, please click here.

To read the article Note from the ACDIS Director: $188.1M Providence Health lawsuit has profound implications for CDI, healthcare, as featured on "In the News," please click here.

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

To view the 2019 IPPS final rule as featured on "In the News," please click here.

To learn more about the 2018 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI, as featured on "ACDIS Update," please click here.