The ACDIS Podcast

With Vaughn M. Matacale, MD, CCDS, the director of the clinical documentation advisor program at Vidant Health in Greenville, 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 read the OIG audit report "Vidant Medical Center Incorrectly Billed Medicare Inpatient Claims With Severe Malnutrition," please click here. You can read further analysis of this report in an article written by Dr. James Kennedy, available in Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies.

To read the 2019 updates to ICD-10-PCS as featured on In the News, please click here.

To learn more about the Clinical and Coding track webinar series featured on the ACDIS Update, please click here.

To learn more about the three-hour case study webinar featuring Matacale and members of the Vidant team, please click here.

We're headed to San Antonio next week for the 11th annual conference! With special guests Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA, and Shannon McCall, RHIA, CPC, CCS, CCS-P, CPC-I, CCDS, CEMC, CRC, Director of Coding and HIM for Simplify Compliance.

To view 2018 Update to Surviving Sepsis Guidelines: Cue Backlash, as covered on In the News, please click here.

With special guests Valerie A. Bica, RN, BSN, CPN, lead CDI specialist at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, and Leah Savage, RN, MSN, CCDS, system CDI manager at Norton Healthcare in Louisville, Kentucky. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert. 

To read the 2019 IPPS proposed rule annoucement and summary as featured on In the News, please click here.

To learn more or register for the 2018 ACDIS conference, please click here.

With special guest Susan Schmitz, JD, RN, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, Regional Director of Clinical Documentation Improvement for SCAL Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena, California. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS. 

To read the 2019 Medicare Advantage and Part D Rate Announcement and Call Letter as featured on "In the News," please click here.

To learn more about the 11th annual ACDIS conference and 10 reasons to attend, please click here.

With special guest Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS, the medical director for CDI and coding at the University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC) in Knoxville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. 

To read "SIRS beats qSOFA for sepsis screening" as featured on In the News, please click here.

To view the new 2018 ACDIS Advisory Board members as featured on ACDIS Update, please click here.

With co-host Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA, and Beth Wolf, MD, CCDS, CPC, the medical director of HIM at Roper Saint Francis Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina. 

To read "Diagnostic Errors Tops New List of Patient Safety Concerns" as featured on In the News, please visit Medscape.com.

To vote in the 2018 ACDIS advisory board election, please click here. Note that you must be an ACDIS member and signed in.

With special guests Dawn Diven, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CDI specialist for West Virginia University Medicine and MedPartners, and Shari Nay, RN, CCDS, a clinical documentation specialist with West Virginia University Hospital. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, full-time instructor for the ACDIS CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert. 

To view a CMS fact sheet on the BPCI Advanced program, please click here.

To register or learn more about the 2018 ACDIS 11th annual conference, please click here.

With special guests Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, and Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS. Both are CDI Education Specialists for ACDIS and serve as full-time boot camp instructors and subject matter experts. 

To read "EHRs are Overflowing with Copy and Paste Records" as featured on In the News, please click here.

To learn more about ACDIS boot camps, please visit www.acdis.org.

With special guests Brett Senor, MD, Physician Associate for Enjoin providing guidance and support for CDI quality initiatives and MS-DRG assurance programs, and Sonia Trepina, MPA, the Director of Ambulatory CDI Services for Enjoin. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. 

To view Executive Leadership and Physician Well-Being as featured on In the News, please click here.

With special guests Madhura Chandak Bajaj, FACHE, MSPT, RHIA, Executive Director of Clinical Integration at JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, TX, and James Montgomery, RN, BSN, Clinical Documentation Improvement Manager for JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, TX. Co-host Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer.

To view the 2018 ACDIS Conference brochure, please click here.