The third annual CDI Week takes place on September 16-20, 2013. ACDIS is looking for several volunteers to help lead 2013 planning efforts, including selecting this year’s theme and suggested activities, publicizing the event, and...Read More »
So another CDI Week has come and gone. I hope you enjoyed the many resources ACDIS prepared, and took the time to celebrate the importance of this profession with your colleagues, physicians, and hospital administration.Read More »
Let’s face it: CDI is a large and growing profession in part because it increases hospital case-mix indexes and reimbursement. A good CDI program leads to accurate documentation of specific diagnoses, resulting in a more accurate representation of a patient’s severity of illness, and better...Read More »
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.
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 »
Each year, four new Advisory Board members step forward to lend leadership to the ACDIS membership, and four trusted members take a step back from their roles. These board members shared their thoughts on the growth of ACDIS and the CDI profession as a whole during their three-year tenure on the...Read More »