CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 14

News: Survey provides insights for physician engagement efforts

July 3, 2014
News, Alabama

When asked to rank their level of engagement on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the most engaged, 63.5% of physicians indicated they feel more engaged (ranking their engagement at a six or higher) with their facility than just three years ago, according to a...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 14

Q&A: Establish clinical criteria prior to querying for COPD

July 3, 2014
Ask ACDIS

Q: We have a problem getting our physicians to understand what we are querying for (chronic respiratory failure in this instance) when a patient is on home oxygen continuously with documented supplementary oxygen (SpO2) of <90% or arterial blood gas (ABG) with hypoxemia. They tell us...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 8, Issue 13

ICD-10 Implementation Case Study: Baptist Health System rethinks budget, staffing

March 23, 2015
Clinical & Coding
The ICD-10 delay forced many healthcare organizations to rethink their ICD-10 staffing and implementation plans. Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Alabama, devised a plan to prepare for the one-year ICD-10 delay by revising its budget and relying on new graduates to fill coder positions....Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 13

Director's Note: CDI Week preparations underway

June 19, 2014
ACDIS Guidance

At ACDIS we’re seeing more and more departments expand their medical record reviews to focus on quality measures such as patient safety indicators, hospital acquired conditions, and severity of illness and risk of mortality, among other concerns. The more than 1,200 who trekked out to our...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 13

News: RACTrac report finds hospitals appeal 50% of denials

June 19, 2014
News, Quality & Regulatory

Of all the Recovery Auditor denials, hospitals reported appealing about 50% with more than a 50% success rate—it’s 50/50 game that hospitals cannot afford to not play, according to the American Hospital Association’s recent RACTrac...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 13

News: Semi-annual OIG report to Congress released

June 19, 2014
News, Quality & Regulatory

In the first half of the 2014 fiscal year, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported more than $3 billion in audit recoveries, nearly $3 billion recovered from investigations, and nearly a million in other non-Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) investigations due to efforts...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 13

Tip: Readmissions an emerging CDI focus area

June 19, 2014
Quality & Regulatory

As more facilities face the specter of reimbursement losses related to the Readmission Reduction Program, CDI programs may be asked to take a second look at records to help ensure documentation is adequate to fully support the patient’s diagnoses, says Susan Wallace, MEd, RHIA, CCS, CCDS...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 8, Issue 13

Q&A: How to reconcile additional responsibilities, productivity expectation

June 19, 2014
Ask ACDIS

Q: I am the only CDI specialist in our 150-bed facility. I have held the position for three years, and am the first one to do so helping to build the position from the ground up. Being the only CDI, I am on several committees, responsible for continual physician education, continuing...Read More »

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