Articles for March 17, 2022

CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

Note from the Product Coordinator: What’s on your CDI bookshelf?

March 17, 2022
ACDIS Guidance

by Karla Accorto

I can’t imagine I’m the first ACDIS leadership team member to say that I love to read. We all have passionately pursued careers in editing and writing, so it’s not a stretch for us to also love reading. I’m equal parts proud and embarrassed to say I’ve already...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

News: BCBS Minnesota sues COVID-19 lab for price inflation

March 17, 2022
News

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota filed a lawsuit against GS labs, a COVID-19 testing laboratory, to recoup more than $10 million in alleged...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

News: Providence St. Joseph Health Group has $714 million operating loss for 2021

March 17, 2022
News

After a more than $300 million loss in 2020, California-based Providence St. Joseph Health Group reported $714 million in net operating loss for 2021, according to a...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

News: Workforce shortages listed as top patient safety concern in 2022

March 17, 2022
News

While what’s been dubbed as the “great resignation” continues throughout various industries, staffing shortages in healthcare, however, equates to potential risks for patients, according to ECRI, an independent, nonprofit organization,...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

Q&A: Documenting and coding severe malnutrition

March 17, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

What clinical information can be used to support the reported diagnosis of severe malnutrition and how would this be coded in ICD-10-CM?Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

Meet a Member: ‘Be kind to yourself and be patient’

March 17, 2022
ACDIS Guidance

Keisha Downes, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, is the CDI director at Tufts Medicine in Boston. She is a member of the Massachusetts ACDIS local chapter volunteer leadership team and the CDI Leadership Council. She is currently serving on the ACDIS Furthering Education Committee.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

ACDIS update: New certification functionality—digital certificate/recertification letter creation

March 17, 2022
ACDIS Guidance

ACDIS is pleased to announce that holders of the CCDS and CCDS-O certifications can now digitally recreate their CCDS/CCDS-O certificates and formal recertification letter.

We recognize that many of our certification holders are required to submit a formal means of demonstrating to their...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 11

Conference corner: Day three speaker on diversity in STEAM

March 17, 2022
ACDIS Guidance

Join us on day three of the 2022 ACDIS Conference in Orlando, Florida for a final keynote speaker to kick off the day’s sessions.

A real life “Guardian of the Galaxy,” Dr. Moogega “Moo” Cooper holds the awesome responsibility of...Read More »

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