Despite the inclination of many hospital administrators to mechanize documentation and abstraction of quality measures, Kristen Geissler, MS, PT, MBA, CPHQ, associate director in the Healthcare Clinical Economics Practice at Navigant Consulting, Inc., in Baltimore, hasn’t heard of anyone able to...Read More »
Vanessa Elliott, BSN, RN, CCDS, enterprise system CDI educator at WVU Medicine, asks: "How are other teams handling their workflow processes with reviews, such as assigning, following up, and concurrent reviews? I’d love input from folks using Epic and 3M!"Read More »
Many CDI specialists struggle with the problem of educating physicians about documentation requirements. Typical trouble areas include acute kidney failure versus acute renal failure or acute renal injury. While some CDI managers have a chance to educate new physician staff in one-on-one...Read More »
Q: Our CDI specialists tend to ask questions that provide the physician with multiple options to choose from. It is not uncommon to have a query with multiple answers checked by the physician.
Q: What is the recommended ratio for CDI professionals regarding the number of patients and the number of chart reviews that should be conducted? Also, do you know if any institution is just reviewing Medicare cases or regardless of financial resource?Read More »
I challenge you to find one textbook of medicine, physiology, or pathology that refers to a category of hematologic abnormality as “acute blood loss anemia.”
But coders are very familiar with that term. They may ask a physician whether a...Read More »
Recent CDI-related headlines include concerns about the burden of paperwork on patient care and the cost of healthcare. And article authors cite a few recent surveys to back up such assertions.
