Acute kidney injury (AKI) serves as warning that acute renal failure (ARF) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are possible if a patient’s clinical status does not improve. The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has endeavored to detect and protect patients...Read More »
On Saturday, May 16, 2009, 123 individuals took their seats in a Las Vegas conference room, prepared to take the first administration of the CCDS exam. Mark LeBlanc, RN, MBA, CCDS, CDMP specialist at Park Nicollet Health Services in Minneapolis, was among them.
Leah Taylor, RN, CCDS, tells of her experience taking and retaking the CCDS exam. Her column is followed by an updated list of those who have passed the exam organized by state.Read More »
Attached is a supplement to the October 2010 issue of CDI Journal. It provides important updates every CDI specialist should know regarding new guidance issued in AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM for both the Third and Fourth Quarter of 2010. The author of the article is James...Read More »
The question of whether to retain queries as a permanent part of the medical record increased in importance this spring as recovery audit contractors (RAC) included queries on the list of records they requested as part of complex audits.
“Once upon a time, there were no query police, But...Read More »
Since the last issue of CDI Journal, an important development has occurred in the industry: the release of the AHIMA documents “Guidance for Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs” (commonly referred to as the CDI Practice Brief) and the Clinical Documentation Improvement...Read More »
Two new publications from AHIMA offer guidance and best practices for CDI programs. The Clinical Documentation Improvement Toolkit, released in April, and the “Guidance for Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs” (aka the CDI Practice Brief), released in the May Journal of AHIMA, outline...Read More »
