CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 16

ACDIS update: It’s Health Information Professional Week!

April 21, 2022
ACDIS Guidance

It’s Health Information Professional (HIP) Week! To celebrate the HIM professionals in your lives, ACDIS put together a list of suggestions to help you show your appreciation for your colleagues:

  • Send handwritten, personal thank you notes to each member of the HIM team.
  • ...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 16

ACDIS update: Is your department involved with denials management?

April 21, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Denials & Appeals

ACDIS polls are a great way to get snapshots of data you can leverage to benchmark your own efforts, answer a pressing question, or identify an area of potential expansion or research. In many cases, the polls you see on our website homepage are submitted by...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 16

Conference corner: Preparing for your ACDIS 2022 experience

April 21, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

The ACDIS national conference is less than two weeks away! This year’s event takes place May 2–5, at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. As you make your final preparations to head to the event, the ACDIS team has some reminders to ensure your trip goes smoothly...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 16

Local chapter update: Reminder of new procedures for chapter leaders and members

April 21, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

As you might have seen, the ACDIS national leadership team recently released several new processes for local chapter leaders and members to follow. These new methods include those for
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 15

Note from the Editorial Director: Conference countdown—two weeks to go!

April 14, 2022
Education

by Melissa Varnavas

I love our annual ACDIS National conference. I mean I love, love, love it. You’ve heard us (me) say it a thousand times—this community of CDI professionals is like a family, and...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 15

News: EHR integration leads to higher documentation of care goals, study finds

April 14, 2022
Clinical & Coding, News

An EHR integration tool (Jumpstart) that pushes goals-of-care guides to patients and their clinicians, leads to a higher documentation of care goals, according to a study published in the Journal of the American...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 15

News: Hospitalists more likely to bill Medicare beneficiaries as high-severity compared to non-hospitalists, study shows

April 14, 2022
Clinical & Coding, News

Hospitalists billed a significantly higher proportion Medicare beneficiaries as high-severity compared to non-hospitalists in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Health...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 15

News: Five conditions total 50% of healthcare costs, study finds

April 14, 2022
News

A study from Health Action Council (HAC) and UnitedHealthcare (UHC) found that just five conditions make up 50% of healthcare spending.

Cancer makes up nearly 15% of all healthcare spending...Read More »

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