By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
Developing and maintaining a good working relationship requires a lot of effort regardless of whether the CDI team works in the inpatient or outpatient setting. A strong team is built on respect and...Read More »
The 2018 event was Jessica Barbeiro's first time attending an ACDIS conference, so the ACDIS team caught up with her afterwards to hear a bit about her experience....Read More »
The question often surfaces regarding what to do with CDI queries once they have been issued. My best advice is keep them. Most facilities do not consider concurrent queries part of the permanent medical record because physicians respond...Read More »
Our lives as CDI specialists revolve around largely repetitive work. Our time is spent on indicators, numbers, data, crunching and parsing opposing viewpoints. It’s safe to say that it isn’t exactly creating a piece of craftsmanship we can...Read More »
CMS and the OIG will conduct a two-part study to assess inpatient hospital billing due to unspecified upcoding in hospital billing—either accidentally or intentionally reporting higher severity codes than supported by documentation to increase payment.Read More »
