by Ami S. Vyas, MBBS, MPH, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, CHFP, CRCR, CICA, CSBI, CSMC
As a field, CDI in the United States has a particularly high number of foreign medical professionals, myself included. Often, when coming to work in CDI here, these professionals find it challenging to locate...Read More »
Crystal Incorvaia, RN, CCDS, CRCR, is a regional manager of CDI with Ensemble in Blue Ash, Ohio. She has been in the CDI field for 10 years and is currently a member of the ACDIS Leadership Council and the Forms and Tools Library Committee.
FEATURES 6 Team development strategies 12 Case study: Higher education leads to more open doors 22 Make learning fun 28 Medals of recognition...Read More »
It was a cold January day in 1961, 61 years ago next week. The words “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for country,” uttered over the inauguration podium, resonating across the airwaves. Now, repeated a thousand times, and a...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
I love the Olympics. Granted, I’m more of a Summer Games gal than a Winter Games one, but no matter the sport, I’m always inspired and awed by the dedication and talent on display. Of course, the Olympics aren’t the only place we can see this kind of single...Read More »
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently conducted an audit of Healthfirst Health Plan, Inc., focused on seven groups of high-risk diagnosis codes to determine whether the organization complied with federal...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
While a team can simply mean a group of people doing independent tasks, its members should ideally work together and intertwine their responsibilities toward one central goal. Team mentality and unity do not generally develop on their own, especially when a day is...Read More »
A recent analysis by Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker found that hospital-set prices for COVID-19 tests ranged greatly from as low at $20 to as high as $ 1,419. While the...Read More »
