Okemena Ewoterai used to take a folder off a shelf and peer through the papers inside looking for hints—scraps of stories that could lead her to a better understanding of why a particular patient needed to be in her hospital. When she found them, Ewoterai would pull out a piece...Read More »
Though I can now follow along with (at least some of) the acronyms related to CDI, I’m still pretty new to the field. Ever since I was eight years old—or so my parents tell me—I wanted to be a writer. So, when I saw the job posting and description for the...Read More »
ACDIS is honored to announce that Sorrel King will now be joining us on the podium as our featured general session motivational speaker on day one of the 10th annual ACDIS Conference. In 2001, Sorrel’s daughter Josie died as a result of medical errors. Consumed by grief, King was determined to...Read More »
I have been pondering the clinical validation conundrum with the publication of the AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS, Fourth Quarter 2016, as well as a practice brief published in the August 2016 edition of the Journal of AHIMA...Read More »
The world didn’t end on October 1, 2015. After years of postponement, the proverbial “deal with the devil” made between CMS and the AMA to push ahead with ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation was a year’s grace period during which...Read More »
When Bernice Baker, RN, BS, CCDS, began working as a CDI specialist at Union General Hospital in Blairsville, Georgia, just over a year ago, her hospital’s CEO had one request: “We need more education.”
Physicians were unhappy with the fact that the majority of the...Read More »
It’s an age-old question: How do you get physicians to support documentation improvement efforts?
“I first spoke on this topic 26 years ago,” says William Haik, MD, FCCP, director of DRG Review, Inc., in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. “The same points I might have made then are still...Read More »
