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. Lena Wilson, MHI, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, the RCS specialized manager of CDI and ICD-10 clinical education at Indiana University...Read More »
Q: Did your organization get formal training for outpatient CDI? If not, what was your source for education? Also, how did you choose the first providers to work with and what was the process of doing so? Lastly, how does query compliance work in the outpatient setting?...Read More »
CDI efforts in the outpatient setting have become more and more talked about over the last decade, but further education on this subject is still in high demand. Expanding documentation integrity efforts to the wide variety of settings outside hospital walls requires a variety of expertise—not...Read More »
While telehealth has made care more accessible, especially at the height of the pandemic, a recent survey shows both patient and provider see such virtual visits as helpful but not a replacement to in-...Read More »
by Jennifer A. Boles, BS, COC, CRC, CCDS-O
Many healthcare systems are looking at where to expand next in the outpatient and ambulatory medical group settings. Outpatient CDI is often focused on hospital emergency department (ED) and observation settings. Ambulatory CDI is viewed...Read More »
