CDI Strategies - Volume 4, Issue 13

Tip: Take care when crafting queries for angina

June 24, 2010
Physician Queries, Clinical & Coding

Despite some misconceptions to the contrary, a coder may report angina, unstable (411.1) if a physician documents any of the following diagnoses and a query is not required:

  • Progressive angina
  • Accelerated angina
  • Initial (new onset) angina
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CDI Strategies - Volume 4, Issue 13

Q&A: Benchmarks for DRGs

June 24, 2010
Ask ACDIS

Q: Do you know of any recommended benchmarks or targets we should be hitting?  For example, chest pain DRG (no higher than___%). 

A: When setting your benchmarks for something...Read More »
CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 4, Issue 12

Council member Q&A: Orienting new staff remotely

December 12, 2022
Leadership Council, 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 4, Issue 12

Guest Post: Identifying Missing CDI Elements by Expanding Our Horizons

March 3, 2011
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion

by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS

While riding the gondola at Snowbasin ski area last week in Utah, I had the opportunity to converse with a physician (who happened to be riding up the lift with me) regarding the field of CDI. His interpretation of CDI centered...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 4, Issue 12

News: Beatty, La Rosa, Love earn 2010 CDI achievement awards

June 10, 2010
News

Many CDI professionals diligently perform the day-to-day tasks of documentation improvement. And there are those who carry out this duty and so much more. The 2010 CDI Professional of the Year award and the two awards for Recognition of CDI Professional Achievement honor these...Read More »
CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 4, Issue 12

New questions from Council members

December 12, 2022
Leadership Council

Emily Castelvecchi, MSN, MHA, RN, CCDS, CRCR, asks: “We are looking into creating separate and distinct job descriptions for CDI. One for our exempt CDI specialists who are RNs, PAs, NPs, or MDs, and one for our non-exempt CDI specialists who are coders, respiratory therapists,...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 4, Issue 12

News: North Carolina boasts the most CCDS

June 10, 2010
News

by Melissa Varnavas, CPC, ACDIS associate director

In the fall of 2009 Leah Taylor, RN, CCDS, and Jennifer Love, RN, BA, CCDS, president and vice president of the North Carolina ACDIS chapter respectively, challenged members of their local chapter to earn...Read More »
CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 4, Issue 12

ACDIS office holiday closures

December 12, 2022
Leadership Council, News

As always, the ACDIS office will be closed intermittently over the month of December in observance of the winter holidays. Specifically, the office will be entirely closed Friday, December 23, 2022, till Tuesday, December 27, 2022, and Friday, December 30, 2022, till Tuesday, January 3, 2023. ...Read More »

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