by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
In the past, I have advised CDI professionals against promoting the monetary benefits of CDI adoption. If the medical staff thinks the program’s purpose is hospital revenue, they will likely rebel. Working in an academic institution, I...Read More »
“When I first started getting interested in the topic of CDI, […] I asked my more senior colleagues and got blank stares,” says Joseph A. Cristiano, MD, an assistant professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Without the...Read More »
Many programs remain focused on inpatient populations, but branching into the ED provides a good starting point for those venturing into the outpatient arena. Not only does it offer outpatient opportunities, but the documentation from ED encounters directly affects the documentation if (or when...Read More »
As with any profession, many unique individuals make up the pediatric CDI field. Since pediatrics represents a relatively new area for CDI, ACDIS spent some time chatting with “the proud and the few,” as Leah Savage, RN, MSN, CDI specialist at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky,...Read More »
Robert S. Hodges, MSN, BSN, RN, VHA-CM, CCDS, acting VISN 10 clinical documentation improvement program lead and currently works as a quality, safety, and value RN/CDIS at the Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center in Saginaw, Michigan. He will soon be moving to a new position as the clinical lead for...Read More »
Take a look through this edition of CDI Journal and note how many of CDI programs focused on quality also aim to capture some of the diagnoses already on most CDI programs’ top 10 lists. Through case examples and expert analysis, the March/April edition shows you how to "Take a closer...Read More »
My husband swears he had SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). It happened on an extended weekend trip to Maine, just a few months after the south China outbreak that killed more than 700. He suffered through our trip, and when neither antibiotics nor...Read More »
A number of inpatient prospective payment system changes in recent years, due primarily to the Affordable Care Act, have allowed CMS to adjust healthcare reimbursement based on quality metrics and data. But some providers are unaware that many quality scores for themselves and hospitals are...Read More »