Four years ago, when Tami McMasters Gomez, MHL, BS-HIM, CCDS, CDIP, the director of coding and CDI services at the University of California Medical Center at Davis in Sacramento, was asked to review the hospital’s contractual agreement for its...Read More »
by Jess Fluegel
Despite increased expansion into outpatient CDI over the past several years, there are plenty of hang-ups that stop people from starting the journey. Among 2022 CDI Week Industry Survey...Read More »
by Purvi Shah, MD
To start with some background, Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) are an increasingly important way to track and report disease in the ambulatory setting, especially in value-based care. This concept is long-standing; the importance of a standardized way to...Read More »
by Kathleen M. Romero, MSN, RN, EBP-C, Cynthia Beal, MBA-HCM, BSN, RN, and Renee Pate, MSOL, MSN Ed., RN, CCDS
In 2018, the South Texas Veterans Health Care System implemented a CDI program in the emergency department (ED) with the goal of improving coding accuracy, professional...Read More »
With our final virtual event of 2022 ending today, the ACDIS team is turning our collective attention to the 2023 ACDIS national conference, happening May 8–11, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. The event features five tracks of unparalleled education over three extraordinary days—that’s more than 50...Read More »
As CDI efforts continue to expand into new settings and areas of interest, getting direction from the trailblazers of outpatient CDI is essential. To help CDI programs planning to expand into outpatient settings, as well as those already reviewing these settings, ACDIS wants to invite you to the...Read More »
Outpatient CDI means different things to different people in the industry. As more CDI programs plan to expand into outpatient settings, gaining education and insights from peers has never been more important. Now, with a three-day virtual event covering the landscape of outpatient documentation...Read More »
As part of the twelfth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Maria Garcia (GiGi) Donohue, RN, BSN, CCDS, the regional manager of clinical documentation excellence at Orlando Health in...Read More »
