by James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, CCDS
Many hospitals find that their patient safety indicator (PSI) ratios remain high despite doing a spectacular job of addressing these events and exclusions.Read More »
Hussein Albishi, BSc HIM, CHIM, is an HIM/CDI consultant, with Vision Realization Office (VRO) for the Ministry of Health, in Saudi Arabia. He is the president of Saudi Health Information Management Associates, and was elected in 2016 by the International Federation for Health Information...Read More »
The full agenda for the 2018 Revenue Integrity Symposium is now available. The event takes place October 16-17 at the Wigwam Hotel in Litchfield Park (Phoenix), Arizona.Read More »
By Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, and Page Knauss, BSN, RN, LNC, ACM, CPC, CDEO
In many instances, the documentation for a particular service needs to be provided before the encounter. This is especially true for diagnostic tests such as MRI scans.Read More »
By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDSDo you ever wonder if your professional skills are actually useful in the real world? I know I do. My resume as an emergency physician falls apart when applied outside of the ED, where it turns out you’re not allowed to stare at someone writhing on the...Read More »
Many organizations have HCC tools built into their CDI software or EHRs that can help them capture HCCs. When providers click on a diagnosis or a condition, the tool will mark whether the diagnosis is an HCC. Other technology can extract pharmacy data, lab data, other diagnoses, and the problem...Read More »
