CDI professionals wishing to earn support from program administrators to attend the “ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI” may adapt the following proposal.Read More »
Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, is a principal and co-founder of Pinson and Tang, LLC. Dr. Pinson will be presenting on Day 2 of the 2018 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI. The title of his presentation is “Diabetic complications...Read More »
Hussein Albishi, BSc HIM, CHIM, is an HIM/CDI consultant, with Vision Realization Office (VRO) for the Ministry of Health, in Saudi Arabia. He is the president of Saudi Health Information Management Associates, and was elected in 2016 by the International Federation for Health Information...Read More »
By Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, and Page Knauss, BSN, RN, LNC, ACM, CPC, CDEO
In many instances, the documentation for a particular service needs to be provided before the encounter. This is especially true for diagnostic tests such as MRI scans.Read More »
By Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, and Page Knauss, BSN, RN, LNC, ACM, CPC, CDEO
The terms “inpatient” and “outpatient” can refer to the clinical setting, but they also indicate the types of procedures performed. Inpatient procedures require that the patient be admitted to the...Read More »
By E.S. Damalie, MD, FACHE, FHFMA, RHIA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS
Naturally, most programs or processes get optimized at one point or another all things been equal. Such ‘steady state’ should reflect a high level of optimization holding all other factors constant. Do CDI programs ever get...Read More »
