Posts Tagged ‘ACDIS/AHIMA’
ACDIS and AHIMA add Important new Addendum to Physician Query Brief
New guidance recommends adding clinical validation language into payer contracts to head off denials By Brian Murphy ACDIS and AHIMA addended the guidelines all CDI and coding professionals should be using to write effective, compliant queries. Link below. This new addendum (you can find it on p. 27 of “Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query…
Read MoreFinal/updated ACDIS/AHIMA physician query practice brief is out: What does it say?
The final (revised/updated) ACDIS-AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice—2022 Update was released on Wednesday, Dec. 14th. What’s in it? If you’re a CDI or coding professional you need to read it. The link is below; the document is open source/free and available on the ACDIS website. A few items that jumped out at…
Read MoreACDIS/AHIMA release new query practice brief, are you ready?
By Brian Murphy The new ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice are out. Why care about this new guidance? The Guidelines are not law or regulation, but they are the standard that the two organizations recommend everyone follow. And that means literally everyone involved in the query process—CDI and coding of course, but…
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