As CDI professionals work tirelessly on a tight budget, often with limited staffing resources available, they’re frequently faced with overwhelmed providers. To safeguard the bottom line and secure adequate resources to care for their patient population, many organizations are leaning on their...Read More »
by Jess Fluegel
In the 2022 CDI Salary Survey, 49% of respondents reported that their CDI program plans to hire additional staff in the next 12 months, almost exactly the same amount as the year previous. In their...Read More »
by Kerri Swart, BSN, RN, CCRN, CCDS
In its initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our 100% on-site CDI program at Upstate University Hospital packed up and went home for an anticipated two weeks. As the pandemic pushed on, that two weeks turned into many more weeks, months,...Read More »
by Merle Zuel, RN, CCDS
Coding professionals are bound by the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, the instructions in the code set itself, and advice in publications such as the American Hospital Association’s Coding Clinic. Because they are bound to...Read More »
by Waldo Herrera, MD, MBA, MSc, FACP, SFHM, CHCQM-PHYADV
Many CDI programs are started or overhauled by a consulting firm. As the program is created or renewed, the main focus tends to be on the CDI department structure: its policies, education, staffing needs, and key performance...Read More »
Tammy Yohn, BA, RN, CCDS-O, is a lead ambulatory CDI RN for Bellin Gundersen Health Systems in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She has been in the CDI field for seven years. Yohn is an active member of the ACDIS CDI Leadership Council and Resource Library Committee.
FEATURES 7 Trekking into the unknown of outpatient CDI 15 2023 CDI Salary Survey excerpt 24 Case study: Psych reviews 28 Case study: NICU...Read More »
While mortality reviews are not a responsibility in every CDI program, it has become a more and more common practice. Without reviewing mortality cases, many organizations find that their expected mortality (i.e., how severely ill their patients look on paper)...Read More »
