Dawn Valdez RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, joined the ACDIS team officially at the beginning of 2020, as a full-time CDI education specialist. Since then, she’s been busy getting up to speed, hitting the road with Education Director Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, and...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
When people talk about CDI’s effect on an organization’s health, often they are referring to the traditional CC/MCC capture and DRG changes for financial improvement and accuracy associated with CDI reviews. Of course, we know that CDI professionals do so much...Read More »
According to HCPro’s 2019 coding productivity survey, while coding productivity held steady, missing documentation and unanswered queries bog down coders, reported JustCoding. CDI, according to survey respondents, may be able to help ease these troubles.
by Carolyn Riel
CDI teams have to work with other departments nearly daily in their line of work, be it the coding department, the clinical team, the quality department, or others. When it comes to denials management, this interdepartmental collaboration becomes even more...Read More »
Home health agencies across the country are grappling with a significant change in how Medicare pays for services, reported HealthLeaders Media. To qualify for services under the new system, a person must be homebound and in need of intermittent skilled care (less than eight hours a day...Read More »
by Sydni Johnson, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Denice Piwowar, BSN, RN, CCDS
CDI professionals generally consider clinical validation queries to be the most challenging queries to generate and format. As CDI managers and educators, we’re often asked how to request supporting indicators of a...Read More »
A new report from CMS found that providers used Z codes to report social determinants of health (SDOH) for 467,136 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries in 2017, which is nearly 5% more than in 2016. CMS notes that this represents 1.4% of the 33.7 million total Medicare FFS beneficiaries...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
When I was a kid, my siblings would tease me. They’d tell me I was wrong, that I didn’t know what I was talking about. They’d say, “You’re in denial, and it ain’t just a river in Egypt.” Imagine a kid in pigtails sticking out her tongue and wagging her fingers...Read More »
