CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Coding Clinic for CDI:Reassessing debridement documentation

January 1, 2016
Clinical & Coding

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

The AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD- 10-CM/PCS, Third Quarter 2015, opens with a discussion of the differences between excisional and non-excisional debridement—diagnoses with a long history of causing coding and clinical documentation...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Meet a member: Florida chapter president reflects on CDI experience

February 1, 2016
Education

In the past 15 years at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Florida, there were two unsuccessful attempts to implement a CDI program. So when Joannie Crotts, RN, BSN, CPC, took on the project back in 2011, shortly after accepting her first CDI position, she had her hands...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Journal Quiz for CCDS Credits

January 1, 2016
Education

The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is January 1, 2017. You must complete your online quiz...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 9, Issue 69

Guest Post: Beyond CC/MCC capture for compliant CDI efforts

December 27, 2016
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

Editor’s Note: Let’s call this week’s guest post from “a ghost of ACDIS’ past.” Those who’ve worked in the profession for some time will no doubt remember with some fondness the teachings of founding ACDIS Advisory Board member Robert S. Gold, MD, who sadly passed away in...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 9, Issue 68

Happy Holidays from the ACDIS team

December 22, 2016

It’s hard to believe that the holiday season is upon us once again. One minute we’re plotting CDI expansion and planning summer vacations, and the next moment we’re facing end-of-year quality reporting requirements and sketching out ideas for query auditing and staffing productivity for 2017. It...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 9, Issue 67

Reassess CDI metrics to ensure program progress

December 20, 2016
ACDIS Guidance, Policies & Procedures

Just because you can measure something doesn’t mean should measure it, Jon Elion, MD, founder and CEO, ChartWise Medical Systems, told ICD-10 Monitor’s Talk Ten Tuesday...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 9, Issue 66

Guest Post: Physician practice CDI could start with help from medical assistants

December 13, 2016
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion, Denials & Appeals

by Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS

The coding function would not exist if there were no physician documentation from which to code. The challenge for coders is not so much that there is no physician documentation; it’s that the documentation they have does not...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 9, Issue 65

Back to basics: The key skills that represent the cornerstone of CDI success

December 9, 2016
ACDIS Guidance, Education

During a conversation regarding what basic elements CDI programs need at the onset in order to be successful, ACDIS Advisory Board member Wendy De Vreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, CCDS, MBA, Director Case Management Case Management and Clinical Social Work
University of...Read More »

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