by Melissa Varnavas
By the end of January 2021, the total number of deaths associated with the pandemic neared 450,000, according to John Hopkins’ coronavirus tracker. That’s the official count. Most in healthcare understand that...Read More »
by Brian Murphy
In the summer of 2020, our nation witnessed what seemed to be a weekly string of disturbing, terrible incidents involving violence perpetrated on people of color. We know the victims today, by name, due to the calls for justice from the voices of hundreds of...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
In many ways, 2020 was a year of reckoning for the United States and the world as a whole. While the COVID-19 pandemic revealed ways in which our public health initiatives need reforming, the wrongful deaths of several Black and other minority individuals at...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
In this issue of the CDI Journal, Angelica Naylor, MBA, BSN, RN, CCDS, has presented us with both an exploration of the problem of health disparities and a call to action (see p. X). The question that follows is how do we, both as...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Few things evoke such a visceral response from CDI professionals as the phrase “payer denial.” Organizations with which I am familiar deal with constantly increasing payer denial volumes and continually evolving denial strategies as...Read More »
By Linnea Archibald
The ACDIS team has been working remotely from home since March 16. At the time of this edition’s publication, we’ve been home for 169 days. Of course, the ACDIS team aren’t the only ones who’ve been social distancing and working remotely. As of ...Read More »
by Sharon M. Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D
The CDI acronym in the home health industry is new to many, but the process is not. That’s because home health staff understand the importance of capturing documentation to support coding, outcomes, quality initiatives, patients’ needs,...Read More »