by Sarah Nehring, CCS, CCDS
In my experience, some of the largest disconnects between provider and coder thinking occur when it comes to neoplasm-related admissions. Consequently, it’s also where some of the greatest query frustration occurs. To help ease some of the consternation...Read More »
Within the constantly evolving healthcare landscape, physicians are under more and more pressure to not only provide exceptional patient care and correctly diagnose patients, but also undertake an increasing amount of administrative tasks. A recent study published in the...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Let’s face it: Our organizations are under tremendous scrutiny. As the healthcare dollar shrinks, all payers strive to minimize patient care expenses to maintain profit margins. While the upfront denial of medical services is the...Read More »
Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CCDS-O, CCS-P, CRC, is a CDI professional at Penn Highlands Healthcare in DuBois, Pennsylvania. He has been in the CDI field for just over four years.
ACDIS: What did you do before entering CDI?
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FEATURES 9 Taking your first step in outpatient CDI 15 Don’t let behavior health reviews psych you out 20 Go big, or go home health 27 CDI in skilled...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
I was reading this article online about responding to the question “tell me about yourself” in a job interview. The best answer to this question, wrote Gary Burnison, came from a woman who’d managed to hike the seven highest summits in the world. You can read...Read More »
As mentioned in CDI Strategies, the ACDIS Advisory Board is working on a year-long project focused on tackling the CDI profession’s number one problem: physician engagement and education. To kick off the conversation—which will ultimately include a series of surveys, white papers, and...Read More »
“Outpatient CDI isn’t just inpatient CDI in an emergency department or clinic,” wrote ACDIS Director Brian Murphy in an article regarding the 2019 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI in Austin, Texas. “It’s a different skillset, and it’s a different mindset.”
