Starting out in CDI can be daunting. You have to learn the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, learn about MCCs and CCs, how to exclude patient safety indicators (PSI), how to use Coding Clinics, learn new computer programs—the...Read More »
CDI is often called the bridge between the coding and clinical worlds, but many other avenues for interdepartmental collaboration also exist. The January/February edition of...Read More »
FEATURES 7 CDI’s role in retrospective reviews 13 CDI–case management collaboration 18 Local chapter financial planning 26 Systemwide outpatient CDI...Read More »
By Melissa Varnavas
Over the past few months, the ACDIS leadership team has been dutifully revising the association’s five-year strategic plan. Strategic planning provides clarity, direction, and focus for any individual, program, or organization. It ties a mission and vision...Read More »
CDI professionals often work with physicians and coders, but record reviews also lend themselves to collaboration with case management. Part of a case manager’s job is to look at documentation in the medical record from the standpoint of medical necessity, meaning the justification for the...Read More »
Even on a small scale, knowing where to start with an outpatient CDI program implementation can leave leaders at a loss. Add in the complications of a large healthcare system and things can get even hairier. With multiple sites and teams dispersed geographically, there’s a lot to consider before...Read More »
by Tammy Trombley, RHIT, CDIP, CCDS
Recently, an outpatient CDI review project at a large family practice/internal medicine physician clinic identified numerous coding errors on physician-coded claims. More than half of the errors affected risk adjustment for the CMS-Hierarchical...Read More »
by Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
Physician support in the CDI decision-making process from the CDI program’s inception helps physicians see beyond the immediate obligation of documentation to the greater good such documentation...Read More »
