by Trey La Charité, MD
Even though primary care physicians (PCP) need CDI expertise, many remain unaware of how the medical landscape around them has changed, and many more simply do not believe that their practice has to change. If the PCPs in your network are reticent, the...Read More »
A recent survey conducted by The American Hospital Association and Executive Health Resources (EHR) found that 98.5% of participants reported that their physicians could improve their documentation practices.Read More »
When Melanie Halpern, RN-BC, MBA, CCDS, CCRA, CDI manager at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, began her CDI career in 2004, she didn’t have international aspirations. When she found out about the International Surgical Health Initiative (ISHI), she had to get involved. We...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI
Some common disease processes require certain types of care. Healthcare specialties often create such standard care intervention checklists to increase efficiency in overall treatments, and to drive notable...Read More »
In ICD-10-CM, complication codes are structured very differently than in ICD-9-CM. Instead of grouping the codes in one chapter, ICD-10-CM places complication codes near the end of each body system–specific chapter, says Shannon E. McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC,...Read More »
Anemia is a tricky condition from a diagnostic standpoint because as many as one-third of patients in the U.S. could have some type of anemia, says Cesar M. Limjoco, MD, vice president of clinical services for DCBA, Inc., in Indianapolis.Read More »
Fran Platt, BSN, RN, is the CDI manager at Southampton Hospital in New York. Though she says she’s new to CDI (she’ll be celebrating her two-year anniversary in the field this coming September), she says learning and continually growing in the CDI profession has kept her...Read More »
The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is July 1, 2016.You must...Read More »