CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 7, Issue 2

Council reminder: Special Leadership Council discount, reception on 2025 ACDIS Conference!

February 10, 2025
Education, Leadership Council

Calling all leaders!

As a reminder, ACDIS is planning a special Leadership Council reception at the 2025 ACDIS conference on Tuesday, May 6, after the sessions have ended! If you’re planning to attend the conference, we encourage you to...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 7, Issue 2

ACDIS/AHIMA brief provides additional query guidance

April 1, 2013
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

It’s been more than 12 years since AHIMA published its first recommendations governing coder-physician interactions. Since “Developing a Physician Query Process,” published in 2001, much in the healthcare industry has changed—and much change is still to come.

Thus the impetus for the...Read More »
CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 7, Issue 2

New questions on PSIs, obesity queries, second-level reviewer roles, CDI software

February 10, 2025
Ask ACDIS, Leadership Council, Physician Queries

One of the biggest benefits of Council membership is that it opens opportunities for collaboration and networking between members. You can always ask questions via the ACDIS Forum thread specifically for Council members...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 7, Issue 2

Director's note: ACDIS/AHIMA query brief: Take a bow, members!

April 1, 2013
ACDIS Guidance

There’s so much in the “Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice”, brief as the article on p. 1 outlines. And you can read the complete practice brief here, beginning on p. 7. I encourage you to do so.

Who decided what this new brief would cover? It was you, our ACDIS members....Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 2

Local meetings: January/February networking events planned

January 17, 2013
News

Dozens of area CDI professionals are gathering for networking and educational opportunities around the country in January and February. Why not join them?Read More »
CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 7, Issue 2

Council update: Temporary Council updates for the coming months

February 10, 2025
ACDIS Guidance, Leadership Council

Council members should have received an email with the following information from ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald on Friday, January 24, 2025, regarding her upcoming maternity leave starting in early February and running until May 2025. Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 7, Issue 2

Pediatric hypertension: The cause or the effect?

April 1, 2013
CDI Expansion, Clinical & Coding

by Dan Catalano, MD, FACOG
Is hypertension an important diagnosis in childhood? According to Nelson Pediatrics, 19th Edition, there is a less than 1% prevalence of infant and young childhood hypertension. Given this relatively low incidence, should we be concerned about capturing...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 2

News: New York to impose sepsis treatment criteria

January 17, 2013
News

New York could become the first state to draft comprehensive measures regarding the identification and treatment of sepsis, according to a New...Read More »

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