It’s no industry secret: There is a growing trend of clinical denials. In the dynamic landscape of healthcare and CDI, the physician advisor’s role has become increasingly critical in order to ensure quality care, effective utilization of...Read More »
by Heather Briggs, MD, PhD, FACP, and Renee P. McGraw, MD, FACOG
When CDI teams develop education programs, most of the content is directed toward physicians and advanced practice practitioners. In the academic hospital setting, this type of education includes trainees such as...Read More »
by Kristin Wallick, MD, FCCP, Joseph A. Cristiano, MD, FACP, CCDS, CHCQM-PHYADV, and Eleanor K. Fertig, MD, ACPA-C, CCDS, CHCQM
The American College of Physician Advisors Clinical Documentation Committee strongly supports the importance of up-to-date, complete, and accurate...Read More »
Peers and colleagues who know me well are keenly aware that the word “denial” makes me irate. The main reason for my denial disdain is due to the fact that payers, who have had no patient contact whatsoever, believe they possess the...Read More »
I recently took a personality test and, after answering a series of questions based on various case scenarios, learned that my strengths are in collaboration and education. It took me some time to reflect on what this meant in the context of working as a...Read More »
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a CDI department, in possession of a part-time physician advisor who is already stretched too thin, may be in want of provider engagement. Certainly, physician advisors being pulled in multiple directions won’t stop the...Read More »
The first key to mounting a successful documentation improvement initiative is to understand the most valuable commodity to all providers: time. This is true within both the inpatient and outpatient realms. Anything that increases a...Read More »
Does the data collected by your healthcare system truly represent the patient you are caring for? It can, and physician documentation is critical to capture all major comorbidities, which then translates into coded data and impacts your...Read More »
