With special guest Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM, vice president at R1 Physician Advisory Services in Chicago, IL, and co-host Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, CDI Education Director for ACDIS.

To view the RACMonitor article discussed on today's show, please click here.

With special guest Kathryn DeVault, MSL, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, manager of health information management (HIM) consulting services at United Audit Solutions, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio, and co-host Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CDI education specialist with ACDIS. 

To view a copy of the 2018 IPPS proposed rule, please click here.

With special guests Lori Sackela, RN, CCM, CCDS, regional director of clinical documentation at Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, and Seth Kirschner, senior manager at the Claro Group, LLC, in Chicago, Illinois. 

To view the article "I want to hear from you: Is CDI only about money?" referenced on this show by co-host Allen Frady, please click here.

With special guests James P. Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS, vice president at Enjoin in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Michael D. Teague, MD, SFHM, CCDS, associate director of hospital medicine service and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) advisor at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

To view the article "Medicare Delays Expansion of Bundled Payments Program" discussed on today's program, please visit the Healthleaders Media website: http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/medicare-delays-expansion-bundled-payments-program

With special guest Frances Frank, RN, MBA/MSN/HCM, CPHQ, Manager of Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) at Stanford Health Care, and co-host Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, CDI Education Director for ACDIS and BLR Healthcare in Middleton.

To view the Kaiser Health News article “By Law, Hospitals Now Must Tell Medicare Patients When Care is ‘Observation’ Only” presented on this show, visit KHN.org: http://khn.org/news/by-law-hospitals-now-must-tell-medicare-patients-when-care-is-observation-only/.

With special guests Adelaide M. La Rosa, RN, BSN, CCDS, assistant vice president of HIM and CDI for six acute care facilities part of Catholic Health Services of Long Island, and Robin Jones, RN, BSN, CCDS, MHA/Ed, assistant vice president for revenue integrity and clinical documentation excellence for Mercy Health in Mason, OH. 

To view the news story "Scheme tied to UnitedHealth Overbilled Medicare for Years, Suit Says," visit The New York Times website.

To learn more about the Mastering Clinical Concepts in CDI Boot Camp shown on this program, please click here.

With special guest Connie Chappelle, RN, MN, CLNC, risk management coordinator for Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, and Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist at HCPro and the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS).

With special guest Dr. Richard Pinson, principal of Pinson and Tang CDI educators and consultants based in Houston, TX, and Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS,CDI education specialist with ACDIS and full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps.

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

With special guest Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for HCPro and the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS). 

To view the OIG audit report on malnutrition referenced on this show, please click here.

To view the opinion piece "Stop the insanity related to the 2017 coding Guidelines," please click here.

With special guest Timothy Brundage, MD, CCDS, medical director of Brundage Medical Group and a former member of the ACDIS Advisory Board, and co-host Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, CDI education specialist with HCPro, instructor for the CDI Boot Camps, and subject matter expert for ACDIS. 

To view Dr. Brundage's Heart Failure: Framingham Criteria document featured on this weeks' program, please click here.

To view the Healthleaders Media story on bundled payments featured on this week's program, please click here.