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 the...Read More »
Q:Since Acute Renal Failure (ARF) is no longer a MCC (as of October 1, 2010). I would like some input on how facilities have coped with the change. Do you just code ARF, or have you started querying physicians for more specific information such as documentation for...Read More »
There are roughly 60 days left until the third annual ACDIS conference but only two to make the early bird registration deadline. The conference takes place June 3-4 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, with a pre-conference event on June 2 and a paper/pencil seating of the Certified Clinical...Read More »
A CDI Work Group run by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has been meeting for more than a year to address and develop CDI resources and tools. One of the primary objectives of the AHIMA CDI Work Group was the development of a CDI practice brief. The CDI practice...Read More »
A 2007 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that direct communication between hospital physicians and primary care physicians occurs infrequently, and that discharge summaries are often times unavailable at the first post-...Read More »
Too many organizations measure the effectiveness of their CDI program solely by an increase in Medicare case-mix index (CMI). This perspective is faulty for many reasons, but primarily because CMS frowns upon it. CMS views this practice as a strategy to...Read More »
Q: As manager of data integrity I oversee my facility’s CDI program. Can you recommend specifically what MS-DRGs are best to review and track or what CCs should we track?
