According to the latest ACDIS poll on the topic, only 15% of respondents currently have a career ladder in place for their CDI department. Though it seems many programs have moved away from formal career ladders, having one would improve employee satisfaction in most (if not all) situations. By...Read More »
This May, ACDIS celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) credential. At the 2009 ACDIS conference in Las Vegas, more than 100 hopeful CDI specialists assembled in a room at the close of sessions on the last day and took the very first CDI...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
When you work in the CDI program of a medical facility, you are continually thinking of ways to elicit improved documentation from the medical staff. You also spend a fair amount of time lamenting why some physicians or service lines...Read More »
Lawrence J. Berthold, RN, BSN, who goes by Larry to most, Larry Joe to some, and Lawrence to few, has worked for PENN Medicine his entire nursing career, even going back to his first clinical rotation. Currently, he oversees the CDI teams across the PENN health system. He participates in both...Read More »
More and more facilities are employing full-time physician educators or liaisons. In fact, roughly 11% of respondents to the 2018 CDI Week Industry Survey indicated they currently have this role as part of their CDI team. But the industry seems to be seeing a differentiation between the...Read More »
“One of the things I really look for when I’m interviewing [CDI candidates] is that an individual has critical thinking and analysis skills,” said Sheila M. Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS, national director of CDI education at Tenet Healthcare in Dallas, Texas, on an episode...Read More »
By Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
CDI specialists who have been around for a while might recall how in 2007 CMS implemented the Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) system. This variation to the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) linked reimbursement...Read More »
More than half of the respondents to the 2018 CDI Week Industry Survey use computer-assisted coding (CAC) and/ or natural language processing (NLP) software, and another 6% intend to implement the technology in the next year. While many of those respondents said software has improved aspects of...Read More »
