The ACDIS Podcast

With special guest James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, president of CDIMD-Physician Champions, and co-host Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CDI education specialist with HCPro.

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

Our first show of 2018 featured special guest Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI Staffing Services for TrustHCS, and co-host Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA.

To view the OIG report "Medicare Improperly Paid Hosptials for Beneficiaries Who Had Not Received 96 or More Consecutive Hours of Mechanical Ventilation, please click here.

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With special guest Rita Fields, BSN, RN, CCDS, regional CDI manager for Baptist Health in Louisville, KY. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA.

To view “The Physician’s Voice: Is Anyone Listening?” by Paul Keckley of The Keckley Report as featured on In the News, click here.

With special guests Glenn Krauss, RHIA, BBA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, CCDS, C-CDI, PCS, FCS, C-CDAM, Managing Director of Precision Health Systems, Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist in San Francisco, and Anny Pang Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, Principal of AP Consulting Associates.  Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CDI education specialist with ACDIS.

To read CDI: More than a credential, please click here.

To view ICD-10 embraces definitions of MI as featured on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Gloryanne Bryant, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCDS, former National Director of Coding Quality, Education, Systems and Support for a national healthcare delivery system. Gloryanne recently retired after more than 35 years in the HIM and CDI professions. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS. 

To view "UnitedHealth Group, Inc. vs. the United States of America: The Case for CDI" part 4 as featured on In the News, please click here.

With special guests and CDI Pocket Guide authors Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, principal of Pinson and Tang based in Chattanooga, TN, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS, coding, CDI, and health information management consultant and principal of Pinson and Tang based in Houston, TX.

To view the slides presented by Dr. James Kennedy on this program, please click here.

To read the article "CMS Administrator Verma Announces New Meaningful Measures Initiative and Addresses Regulatory Reform" as featured on In the News, please click here. 

To read the article "“Making Progress on Regulatory Relief" as featured on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, SFHM, CPE, CCDS, board certified internist and chief medical officer, medical director of information systems, utilization management medical director, physician advisor, and HIM committee chair for Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas, and co-host Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS and developer and lead instructor for the ACDIS boot camp line.

To read the article Emergency Physicians Push Back Against Anthem ED Policy as featured on "In the News," please click here.

To view the article New Sepsis and Septic Shock Definitions: Clinical Implications and Controversies, referenced by Sam Antonios, please click here (purchase required to read full article).

To read the ACDIS White Paper Where Are We Now With Sepsis, authored by Sam Antonios, please click here.

Following are additional recommended readings on sepsis provided after the show by Antonios (note: some require registration and/or payment):

Rhee C, Dantes R, Epstein L, Murphy DJ, Seymour CW, Iwashyna TJ, Kadri SS, Angus DC, Danner RL, Fiore AE, Jernigan JA, Martin GS, Septimus E, Warren DK, Karcz A, Chan C, Menchaca JT, Wang R, Gruber S, Klompas M, for the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. Incidence and Trends of Sepsis in US Hospitals Using Clinical vs Claims Data, 2009-2014. JAMA. 2017;318(13):1241–1249. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.13836.: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2654187

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891552017300314?via%3Dihub

http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2017/09000/The_Impact_of_the_Sepsis_3_Septic_Shock_Definition.2.aspx

http://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(17)32897-0/pdf (free online)

http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Citation/2017/09000/What_Is_the_National_Burden_of_Sepsis_in_U_S_.23.aspx

With special guests Abby Steelhammer, MBA, MHA, RN, director of clinical documentation excellence at Novant Health, Michelle Walters, MSN, RNC-OB, women’s services CDS with Novant Health System, and Sandra Surratt, RNC-OB, BSN, women’s services CDS with Novant Health System. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CDI education specialist with ACDIS. 

To view the article "Your 2018 IPPS Final Rule questions, answered," as featured on In the News, please click here.

To take advantage of the 20% off 10 items in celebration of ACDIS' 10-year anniversary as featured on ACDIS Update, please click here.

With special guests William E. Haik, MD, FCCP, CDIP, director at DRG Review, Inc. in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and Tamara A. Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM, director of clinical documentation excellence (CDE) at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Co-hosted by ACDIS CDI Editor Linnea Archibald.

To read the article "AMA demands EHR overhaul, calls them 'poorly designed and implemented'" as featured on In the News, please click here.