Q:Under what circumstances would it be appropriate for a patient who does not meet inpatient criteria to be registered as outpatient receiving observation services?Read More »
By Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, and Page Knauss, BSN, RN, LNC, ACM, CPC, CDEO
The brevity of the patient encounter requires an organization’s outpatient CDI program to focus on improving documentation from the beginning. One of the goals for outpatient CDI should be to reduce...Read More »
As with adult gastroenterological (GI) conditions, pediatric patients can experience a wide range of severity levels. One concern with pediatric patients, however, is simply their immature anatomy and physiology.Read More »
By Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, and Page Knauss, BSN, RN, LNC, ACM, CPC, CDEO
Ambulatory surgery and pre-admission testing include pre-scheduled patient visits. Typically, a patient will have a physician order at the time of pre-admission testing, requesting lab work or X-...Read More »
At this year’s annual ACDIS conference, Beth Wolf, MD, CCDS, CPC, medical director of HIM at Roper Saint Francis Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina, will take the stage in the expansion and innovation track to share about...Read More »
More than half of the 626 health systems in the United States have only one or two hospitals within the system, but the largest systems have 18 or more hospitals.Read More »
ACDIS likes to be invited to its local chapter’s leadership planning meetings. It offers the national administration an opportunity to serve as a resource to the chapter’s volunteers and offer insight into the ways other chapters perhaps have handled an event or educational session in the past...Read More »
While the data gleaned from the polls shows up in a variety of ACDIS offerings—from social media graphics, to CDI Journal articles—the data can also benefit you, the ACDIS members.Read More »
