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CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 6 - DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE

Community care: CDI programs’ role in population health initiatives

November 1, 2019
Quality & Regulatory

The fiscal year 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule threw gas on the population health fire when it proposed giving social determinants of health (SDOH) codes more weight as complications/comorbid conditions (CC). The final rule threw some water on the pyre, however,...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 6 - DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE

Regulatory Committee insight: Summarizing the C&M Committee meeting

November 1, 2019
Clinical & Coding, Quality & Regulatory

by Teresa Krepps, RHIT, CCS, CCDS

The ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee met on September 10–11, 2019 to discuss code proposals for implementation on October 1, 2020, for fiscal year 2021. Several members of the ACDIS CDI Regulatory Committee listened to or...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 6 - DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE

Coding Corner: Review updates to the 2020 ICD-10-CM Guidelines

November 1, 2019
Clinical & Coding, Quality & Regulatory

by Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, COBGC

The fiscal year (FY) 2020 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, released shortly after the FY 2020 ICD-10-CM code release, provide instructions for healthcare professionals on how to appropriately report...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 6 - DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE

Physician Advisor's Corner: Ending conflicting documentation

November 1, 2019
Quality & Regulatory

by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS

The concept of “conflicting documentation” is a frustrating and never-ending annoyance in the CDI arena. I have grown to despise the phrase that I hear daily, as it suggests that doctors are warring with each other in the medical...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 6 - DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE

Coding Clinic for CDI: A season for football, pumpkin lattes, and Coding Clinic releases

November 1, 2019
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC

It’s fall—a season for football and pumpkin lattes. That means it’s also time for the Third and Fourth Quarter American Hospital Association (AHA) Coding Clinic releases. Both were released on the same day and, because one...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 6 - DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE

Meet a Member: Building a bridge between coding and nursing in CDI

November 1, 2019
Quality & Regulatory

Kelly Ellis, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, is the director of coding, CDI, and compliance at the Ohio State University Healthcare. She has been in the CDI field for about 10 years and worked in the coding and compliance field before that.Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 6 - DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE

Consensus recommendations for optimizing electronic health records for nutrition care

November 1, 2019
Quality & Regulatory

Abstract
Provision of nutrition care is vital to the health and well-being of any patient who enters the health care system, whether in the ambulatory, inpatient, or long-term care setting. Interdisciplinary professionals— nurses, physicians, advanced practice providers,...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 5

Download the September/October 2019 edition of the CDI Journal

September 1, 2019
ACDIS Guidance, Denials & Appeals

FEATURES
9 CDI in a changing denials landscape
13 The payer side of CDI
15 Frontline appeal writing advice
20 Organization-wide clinical definitions...Read More »

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