Although the implementation of electronic health records (EHR) promised to improve productivity, data capture, specificity, and efficiency, there remain a number of reasons for CDI specialists' concern in this new digital environment, according to a new position statement released by the ACDIS...Read More »
So another CDI Week has come and gone. I hope you enjoyed the many resources ACDIS prepared, and took the time to celebrate the importance of this profession with your colleagues, physicians, and hospital administration.Read More »
Why meet a member when you can meet a team? Here are the folks from MaineGeneral Medical Center. They are all ACDIS members and all six ladies hold the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) credential. MaineGeneral Medical Center has campuses in Augusta and Waterville.Read More »
"Don’t let the relative quiet fool you,” says James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, president of CDI MD-Physician Champions in Smyrna, Tenn., “there are big changes in this year’s IPPS final rule, changes that represent a paradigm shift in the way CDI programs work.”Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD
I realized, painfully, early in my career as a physician advisor for CDI that I needed to learn a lot more about coding and the process of translating physicians’ written words into ICD codes. I also needed a more secure footing to successfully appeal the ever...Read More »
by James P. Fee, MD, CCDS, and Garry L. Huff, MD, CCS, CCDS
Certainly, the alphabetical and tabular index of the ICD-9-CM codebook assume the “postoperative” relationship as causal, but a CDI specialist should investigate this further within the specific clinical context.Read More »
AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM released its third round of ICD-10 coding guidance in its Second Quarter 2013 issue. HCPro CDI Education Director Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, says the guidance contains several questions about procedures which may be...Read More »
