CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 12

News: COVID-19 ICD-10-CM code coming April 1, CMS releases provider waiver fact sheet

March 19, 2020
Clinical & Coding, News

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced during the March 18 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting that a new code specifically for reporting COVID-19 will be available for use starting on April 1, 2020. The code will be housed in Chapter 22, Codes for...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 12

Q&A: Provider specification on malnutrition queries

March 19, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Denials & Appeals

Q: We’re having some trouble with malnutrition documentation. In many instances, the patient meets the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) criteria and the provider agrees with the query, but then doesn’t expand on the diagnosis in their documentation. We’re then...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 12

Meet a Member: Be patient with yourself, she advises new CDI professionals

March 19, 2020

Franchesca T. DeLisser, MSHI, BSN, RN, is the director of CDI at Ensemble Health Partners/Bon Secours Mercy Health—Richmond (Virginia) market. She is the co-leader for the Virginia ACDIS local chapter and has been in the CDI field since February 2014.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 12

Symposium spotlight: 2020 ACDIS outpatient symposium speaker applications open—Apply today!

March 19, 2020
Outpatient CDI

The fourth annual ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI conference takes place November 12-13, 2020, at The Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the call for speaker applications is now open.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 12

ACDIS update: Special ACDIS Podcast on CDI response to COVID-19 available now

March 19, 2020
News

In a special edition of the ACDIS Podcast: Talking CDI, ACDIS Director Brian Murphy hosted four CDI leaders on how their organizations and CDI departments are handling the current COVID-19 pandemic.

While the live show experienced technical difficulties and had to be discontinued...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 12

Local chapter update: A note about COVID-19 for chapter leaders

March 19, 2020
News

The ACDIS leadership team is closely monitoring the events unfolding with COVID-19 as we know you are too. Many of you are planning your events; spring has traditionally been a busy time for our local chapters.

Please know first and foremost that your health, safety, and well-being are...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 14, Issue 11

CDI tip: The role of clinical validation in CDI

March 16, 2021

by Kathryn Fallah

Back in the day, the medical record review process consisted of the following steps: a provider documenting a diagnosis, coders coding and reporting it, and the facility getting paid. No further questions were asked about the validity of the diagnosis submitted...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 11

Note from the Associate Editorial Director: Spending a week with PROPELCDI clients

March 12, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion, Education

by Melissa Varnavas

The first week of the month is typically the time when ACDIS CDI Education Director Laurie Prescott and I spend with our PROPELCDI clients during their regular educational calls. It’s always heartwarming when an attendee expresses...Read More »

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