By Brian Murphy

In the stream of e-newsletters that flood my inbox each day I occasionally see reports that give me momentary pause about the CDI profession.

For instance, a Medicare Compliance Review of Rush University Medical Center recommends that the hospital refund $10.2 million to Medicare. Part of this amount is from a review of inpatient claims billed with high-severity-level DRG codes that “did not fully comply with Medicare billing requirements.”

Should you run into any holidays quandaries, ACDIS suggests taking them to the ACDIS Forum for answers from your peers.

Q: Our facility does not retain written queries in the medical record, but I’ve heard that other hospitals do. Is this something we should consider?

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended payment adjustments for several settings to Congress this week.

Being a member of ACDIS national doesn’t automatically enroll you in local chapter membership. The converse is also true.

The OIG greenlit a pilot program to share patient discharge data with pharmacists in an effort to improve care planning and decrease readmissions.

More and more people use social media platforms to connect with their communities of interest every day. Well, ACDIS (as many know) is a part of that group.

No, we don’t mean the common table spice. The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report summarizes facility-specific data statistics for Medicare services that may be at risk for improper payments.

To gauge the prevalence of new year's CDI policy updates, ACDIS is currently running a polling question on the topic.