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CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Talk about ICD-10: Focus on five tricky diagnoses

January 1, 2016
Clinical & Coding

As CDI programs move deeper into the post-implementation world, staff are identifying those changes that are having the greatest effect on DRG assignments, and those they are struggling with. Here are a few documentation issues that stand out.Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

ICD-10 challenges in the neonatal world

January 1, 2016
Clinical & Coding

by Karen Bridgeman, MSN, RN, CCDS

ICD-10-CM/PCS brought some new challenges in coding neonatal records. The term “newborn” has replaced the term “fetus or newborn” in the ICD- 10-CM code set. This change ensures that these codes will only be used on the neonate’s...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Coding Clinic for CDI:Reassessing debridement documentation

January 1, 2016
Clinical & Coding

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

The AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD- 10-CM/PCS, Third Quarter 2015, opens with a discussion of the differences between excisional and non-excisional debridement—diagnoses with a long history of causing coding and clinical documentation...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Meet a member: Florida chapter president reflects on CDI experience

February 1, 2016
Education

In the past 15 years at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Florida, there were two unsuccessful attempts to implement a CDI program. So when Joannie Crotts, RN, BSN, CPC, took on the project back in 2011, shortly after accepting her first CDI position, she had her hands...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Journal Quiz for CCDS Credits

January 1, 2016
Education

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 January 1, 2017. You must complete your online quiz...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 6

Download the November/December edition of the Journal

November 1, 2015

FEATURES

11 One step at a time: Career tips from the top rung

17 Six steps to help you join the CDI ranks

DEPARTMENTS

4 Associate director’s note

6 Note from the Advisory Board
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CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 6

Associate Director’s Note: ACDIS takes the lead

November 1, 2015
ACDIS Guidance

We believe that the CDI profession may be well poised as the architects of the sturdy infrastructure needed in this new landscape. After all, the profession was built on change.Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 9, Issue 6

Note from the Advisory Board: Create a CDI/coding reconciliation process

November 1, 2015
ACDIS Guidance

by Judy Schade, RN, MSN, CCM, CCDS

Reconciliation is the process of reviewing medical record documentation and comparing this information to the coding summary: principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, present on admission indicators, procedure(s), and discharge disposition.Read More »

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