CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 28

Tip: Manage and track physician advisors’ time to balance competing priorities

June 30, 2016
Physician Queries, Education

Physician advisors serve a variety of purposes beyond documentation improvement, including assisting case management, utilization review, quality, and coding departments, among other assignments, according to a recent benchmarking report and survey from ACDIS.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 28

Q&A: CKD relationship

June 30, 2016
Clinical & Coding

Q: The coders at my facility have stated auto linking congestive heart failure (CHF), hypertension (HTN), and chronic kidney disease (CKD) to the combination code without any documentation of CHF “due to” HTN. There is no documentation of hypertensive heart disease anywhere in...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 28

Local Chapter Update: Collaborating across the continuum

June 30, 2016
ACDIS Guidance, News

On Thursday, July 28, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, CDI and coding professionals from across the New England region will join together for a full-day educational event. On the agenda are sessions about engaging physicians in CDI, a panel discussion featuring documentation improvement from both the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 28

Survey: Physician advisor education needs

June 30, 2016
Education

ACDIS is seeking feedback on your physician advisor training needs. Please take a moment to answer a short 5-question survey to help us learn what would best serve your needs. Click here to take the survey.Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 27

Conference Q&A: DeVault illuminates the shift to outpatient CDI

March 8, 2017
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Outpatient CDI

Editor’s Note: Over the coming weeks on the ACDIS Blog, we’ll introduce a few of this year’s speakers who are heading to the podium for the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 27

What part of your ACDIS membership means the most to you?

June 23, 2016
ACDIS Guidance

by Rebecca Hendren

Recently, ACDIS celebrated an exciting milestone as we welcomed the 5,000th member to our association. Our profession has grown enormously in the last decade—and so has ACDIS—and we are thrilled that, as our rosters grow, we are able to expand the...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 27

Guest Post: Building successful relationships with physicians

March 8, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Sue Egan, CPC, CCDS

Let’s face it, working with providers isn’t always a positive experience.

It can be tough providing them education or getting responses from queries. Busy providers typically don’t want anything to do with coding. When they hear anything about coding...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 10, Issue 27

Feature: Volunteers sought for 2017 ACDIS Conference Committee

June 23, 2016
ACDIS Guidance

he 2017 ACDIS Conference Committee will meet via conference call on a regular basis. The 12-member team will establish core session topics, special panels and events, review speaker applications and presentation proposals, assess presentations to determine audience level, and ultimately select...Read More »

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