Those attending this year’s ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient in November will receive an email with online login information for materials and download instructions for this year’s Symposium smartphone app. The email will be sent approximately one week before the event. Check your spam filters and...Read More »
Prioritization of reviews begins with defining the population of cases to be evaluated. This should align closely with the mission of the CDI program. If the mission is largely revenue driven, the most populous payer populations may be...Read More »
Risk models group diagnoses according to ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes and categorize patients who share similar clinical characteristics and cost. Each risk model has a complex methodology where a particular diagnosis may trump another diagnosis,...Read More »
Fran Andrews, RN, BSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Wellstar Healthcare System, has been in the field since 2006, and is a member of the Georgia ACDIS local chapter.Read More »
As the coder or CDI specialist reviews the documentation, he or she will identify opportunities to clarify diagnoses or even to identify conditions that were not previously documented but may be possible given the patient’s presentation.Read More »
Coding versus the true nature of patient’s condition can be enigmatic. In order to parse out the difference between the two, we need to understand the ultimate goal of CDI. It’s not in following the severity of illness (SOI)/risk of mortality (ROM), the...Read More »
