More than 30% of respondents to the 2017 CDI Industry Survey plan to expand to some sort of outpatient service in the near future. But, with fairly flexible definitions of the term “outpatient,” those planning to expand are left without direction.
As with any new frontier for CDI, those...Read More »
Any CDI manager knows how important reliable CDI data is for benchmarking, goal setting, and proving a return on investment. Getting your hands on that data, though, can be much more difficult than you might hope. Between the intricacies of working with different EHR systems and busy workloads,...Read More »
Dignity Health in California used a multipronged initiative to improve their revenue cycle, according to HealthLeaders Media. While most of the initiatives...Read More »
"The cases can be anything from a simple pneumothorax to someone who’s been crushed from head to toe,” says Kristie Perry, RN, MHSA, CCDS, CCS, CDI specialist at Erlanger Health System, a Level 1 trauma center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
By Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, and Page Knauss, BSN, RN, LNC, ACM, CPC, CDEO
The amount of physician documentation required for an outpatient case depends on the type of service rendered. In some cases, such as laboratory tests, the only documentation required by providers...Read More »
When trying to effect change through CDI in home health or hospice care, one of the more difficult areas to address is external sources, such as the physician, the hospital, and the wound clinic, since these entities are not typically part of the...Read More »
By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
Follow these steps to keep your verbal interactions brief and to respect not only the physician’s limited time but also his or her knowledge of the patient’s condition.Read More »
Like all reporting structures, CMS updates its HCC list each year. Recently, version 23 was released, and it contains some notable additions that CDI professionals—whether inpatient or outpatient—must be aware of.Read More »
