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CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 2

Physician Advisor's Corner: Got queries? They need to be compliant

March 1, 2020
Physician Queries, Policies & Procedures

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 »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 2

Meet a Member: CDI offered him a chance to remain in healthcare

March 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Education

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?
Simpson: For more...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Download the January/February 2020 edition of the CDI Journal!

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion

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 »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Note from the Associate Events Director: Practicing the art of listening

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Management

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 »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Advisory Board Insight: Tackling CDI’s biggest challenge—Innovative physician engagement tactics

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Education

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 »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Taking your first step in outpatient CDI

January 1, 2020
CDI Expansion, Outpatient CDI

“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.”

In it, Murphy explains how...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Podcast Recap: Preventing physician burnout

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Education

Between 35% and 54% of doctors and nurses experience burnout, according to a report issued by the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). The report found an estimated 60% of interns and...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Don’t let behavioral health reviews psych you out

January 1, 2020
CDI Expansion

Why delve into psychiatric record review?

For some programs, the expansion into psychiatric units or facilities may be driven by the needs of the patient population, says Rhonda Mark, RN, BS, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Vero Beach,...Read More »

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