The deadline to fill out ACDIS’ 2022 CDI Salary Survey is tonight, November 14, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. eastern! The results will be made available for all ACDIS members in early 2023 to use for salary proposals, job searching,...Read More »
The ACDIS CDI Work Group is pleased to present the results of its first CDI staffing survey. The results are based on approximately 85 responses from CDI department managers on a wide range of questions concerning CDI department staffing.
The goal of the survey is to help CDI managers...Read More »
Laura Hartsock, RHIT, CCS, CHC, CCDS, medical documentation director, north central, at Mercy in Springfield, Missouri, asks: “I would like input from other hospitals on how they calculate the number of CDI FTEs needed based on the volume of inpatient discharges? We have an old...Read More »
In April, CMS held an ICD-10 conference for software vendors, billing services, and clearinghouses to discuss the ICD-10 and Version 5010 transitions. The goal of the meeting was to openly discuss implementation issues such as testing and resources that to help make the transition easier. The...Read More »
Q: Payers have been pushing back when a diagnosis appears in the discharge summary and not in the chart. Can the physician add a late entry or addendum into the medical record by way of a progress note or an addition to a discharge summary...Read More »
We, in the United States, will soon need to adopt the electronic health record (EHR). Over the past few years, of course, healthcare entities have slowly converted from the traditional handwritten medical record toward one that is totally digital. There have...Read More »
Shortly after releasing its Clinical Documentation Improvement Toolkit in April, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) released its Guidance for Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in the May issue of the Journal of AHIMA.
