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 »
ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald sends out “missed connections” emails with questions from Council members on a regular basis. Anyone with experience related to one of the questions was invited to respond and Archibald connected them with the question-asker. In order to share...Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
