To combat inclement weather and uncertain travel, many local chapter leaders opt for remote or web-based winter events this January including those in Indiana, Washington, and Philadelphia. Others nevertheless look to persevere such as the local chapter members in Connecticut, central...Read More »
After more than four years working remotely for UASI, Jennifer Love, RN, BA, CCDS, CDIP, has learned a thing or two about the difficulties and opportunities of working remotely. When asked about her 2017 New Year’s resolutions, she responded with a plethora of tips for those...Read More »
If you attended the ACDIS conference in Atlanta last year, you might have been among those lucky enough to catch Shannon McCall, director of HCPro’s Certified Coder Boot Camp® programs face off against ACDIS’ CDI education coordinator Laurie Prescott in a head-to-head, heavy-weight champion of...Read More »
Okemena Ewoterai used to take a folder off a shelf and peer through the papers inside looking for hints—scraps of stories that could lead her to a better understanding of why a particular patient needed to be in her hospital. When she found them, Ewoterai would pull out a piece...Read More »
The ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting for the 2017 fiscal year (effective 10/1/2016) added a new directive. In Section I, subsection A, item 19, states that:
Queries are definitely not what they used to be. When I first started as a CDI specialist, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, the query process was a muddy exercise in creative writing.Read More »
CDI specialists can pretty much come from any background in the medical field—from physicians, to nurses, to coders, and everything in between. While CDI specialists generally have the same day-to-day workflow (reviewing charts and sending queries), a specialist’s background prior to coming to...Read More »
by Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer
The 30-day all cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality outcome measure has been linked to hospital payments since the inception of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP) in fiscal year 2013....Read More »