Q: Can we send a concurrent query to the physician using the statement within the query: "Use of terms such as concern for, suspected, possible, or probable (associated with a specific diagnosis) are accepted and can be coded in the inpatient setting”? I was told that this type of...Read More »
Q: I have a question about provider education and query escalations in a remote world. What is your provider education process? Are your frontline CDI staff facilitating regular provider education or do you have a designated CDI physician educator or team of CDI that facilitate on a...Read More »
Q: Our issue is that when constructing the query, the CDI specialist/coder is giving the appropriate responses to the physician, but when they choose to answer the query and click on choices, they are given a multitude of choices in the response section. The CDI team is thinking this...Read More »
Q: I have a question about provider education and query escalations in a remote world. What is your provider education process? Are your frontline CDI staff facilitating regular provider education or do you have a designated CDI physician educator or team of CDI that facilitate on a...Read More »
Q: I am working on streamlining our templates and would love to include the standard definitions of certain diagnoses, such as malnutrition, to help remind the providers of certain criteria within the body of the template. For instance, I would like to include the Global Leadership...Read More »
Q: Our team had a question regarding the criteria for chronic respiratory failure. The ACDIS Pocket Guide states the criteria “typically requires continuous oxygen support,” so do patients just need to be on continuous oxygen to meet it?
Doximity and Curative’s 2023 Physician Compensation Report reveals several concerning trends among physicians, including lower compensation, a pronounced gender pay gap, and physician burnout....Read More »
Q: If a provider answers “yes” or “no” to a yes/no query on the actual query template, does the provider also need to document their diagnosis in a note? If the query is part of the permanent medical record, does that answer on the query template suffice and eliminate the need for...Read More »