As the temperatures climb, CDI summertime events are taking shape too. As you plan your next chapter event, make sure to take a moment to review the items in the Leadership Toolkit for help planning the best possible chapter event.Read More »
Koko Williams, MSN, RN, CMSRN, is a CDI specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, and a member of the Texas ACDIS local chapter. She’s been in the CDI field since 2015.Read More »
It’s the last day of #ACDIS2019—and hard to believe that the finish line is already in sight. Our theme this year was Charting the Course. As I mentioned in my opening welcome remarks, we don’t know what the final destination is for CDI. Regulations and...Read More »
Attendees of this morning’s final general session left reenergized, after two full days of sessions, networking, and fun. Joe Tye offered advice for how individuals can look into a mirror to see the lion inside themselves and overcome negative self-talk, become a better humans, and positively...Read More »
by Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC
Codes for symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions from Chapter 18 of the ICD-10-CM coding manual cannot be used as principal diagnosis or reasons for outpatient encounters when related diagnosis has been established, they...Read More »
Paola Dees, MD, is presenting a poster titled “Take 5 to improve satisfaction of resident CDI education” at the 2019 ACDIS conference. Dees is a pediatric hospitalist and medical director of utilization management, at Johns Hopkins All...Read More »
This morning, two OIG representatives, Truman Mayfield, CPA, CPE, and Scott Perry, CPA, took the stage to discuss the OIG’s Work Plan, audit activities, and offer some words of wisdom (and perhaps consolation) to those under OIG scrutiny. To kick off the session, Mayfield discussed the ins and...Read More »