CDI Journal - Volume 8, Issue 2

Ask ACDIS: Clarifying requirements for postoperative pneumonia and respiratory complications

April 1, 2014
Ask ACDIS

What is the correct code assignment for a diagnosis of postoperative aspiration pneumonia? ICD-9-CM’s Tabular List under code 997.39 provides the following inclusion terms: “Pneumonia (aspiration) resulting from a procedure.” However, the instructional note under category 997 states, “Use...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 2

Q&A: Use yes/no queries to resolve surgical complication questions

January 16, 2014
Ask ACDIS
Q: We are struggling with how to query physicians regarding complications of procedures or surgeries. For example, a patient was readmitted for a bile leak two weeks after a cholecystectomy. Neither the attending nor the GI consultant ever stated that this was a complication. Can you...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 8, Issue 2

Disrupting the status quo: Hospital outpatient and ICD-10-PCS

April 1, 2014
Clinical & Coding, CDI Expansion

“If ICD- 10-PCS is not necessary, why the debate? Why should we bother assigning codes when we don’t have to?”The ICD-10 system was designed to improve clinical communication via modernization and  standardization of codes and descriptions. The ICD-10-PCS side provides additional specificity to...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 8, Issue 2

ACDIS Insight: Outpatient CDI on the rise in facilities

April 1, 2014
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion

In 2008, only 11% of respondents to an ACDIS poll indicated their CDI program either reviewed outpatient records for documentation improvement opportunities or were looking to expand into outpatient areas (8% and 3% respectively).

How has the climate changed? Of the more than 400...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 8, Issue 2

Foreign-born physicians find fulfillment in CDI efforts

April 1, 2014
CDI Expansion

Genevir O. Del Mundo, CDIP, CCS, CCA (“Apple” to his friends), a CDI specialist at Kindred Hospital, grew up in the Philippines watching his father help people and save lives. He always wanted to be a doctor, too, to follow in his father’s footsteps. Transitioning from one...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 8, Issue 2

Meet-a-member: Wright-Duncan tag team works wonders at Skagit Valley

April 1, 2014
Education

Kathy Wright is an RHIT and CCDS and was an inpatient coder for 23 years before moving into CDI in 2012. Erika Duncan is a nurse who earned her bachelor’s degree and CCDS credential and came to CDI two years ago after a varied career including time in case management, intensive care, emergency...Read More »
CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 8, Issue 1

Council member Q&A: CDI educator responsibilities

January 12, 2026
Ask ACDIS, Education

ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald sends out “missed connections” emails with questions from Council members on a regular basis. Anyone with experience related to one of the questions was invited to respond and Archibald connected them with the question-asker. In order to share...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 8, Issue 1

Note from the Associate Editorial Director: Welcome Katy Rushlau to the ACDIS team

January 12, 2015
ACDIS Guidance, News

by Melissa Varnavas

Maybe you’ve wondered how ACDIS Director Brian Murphy, ACDIS Membership Services Specialist Penny Richards, and I manage to keep everything here at ACDIS National going to so smoothly all the time. (Truth be told, we often wonder about that ourselves.)

...Read More »

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