CDI Journal - Volume 15, Issue 4

Physician advisor’s corner: The importance of mortality reviews

July 1, 2021
Education, Physician Queries

by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
If your organization isn’t reviewing all in-hospital mortality cases, you’re missing some tremendous opportunities. While many facilities have been doing mortality reviews for a decade or more, there are still many facilities that do...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 14, Issue 53

Book excerpt: A brief history of query practice briefs

December 7, 2021
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

by Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CCS, CDIP, CCM

As the CDI and coding professions continue to evolve, query guidance methods have changed along with them.

The first industry standard brief, “Developing a Physician Query Process,” published by AHIMA in 2001, set...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 14, Issue 47

Guest post: A method to the madness

October 26, 2021
Education, Physician Queries

​by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS

In college, you were supposed to seek out professors who would challenge you to think broadly, to contest accepted ideas and norms, to develop a social conscience, to learn and grow and become a better version of yourself. You...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 47

From the forum: Determining query compliance

October 15, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

​The ACDIS Forum offers a unique opportunity for members to ask questions of their CDI peers, often in real-time, for real-life input. A recent inquiry there pondered posting queries within a CDI program’s EHR physician communication...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 46

Q&A: Handling queries when a hospitalist hands off a case

October 8, 2020
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: How should organizations handle unanswered queries when the hospitalist originally queried hands off the case to another hospitalist?Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 45

Q&A: Compliant query practice

October 1, 2020
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Does the ACDIS/AHIMA “Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice” brief support queries that only list one diagnosis, “other,” and “unknown”? Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 41

2020 CDI Week Q&A: Physician engagement—Sponsored by Nuance

September 16, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Education, Physician Queries

As part of the 10th annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Audrey Murray, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDI specialist at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital in Humble, Texas, a member of the 2020 CDI...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 38

2020 CDI Industry Overview Survey Report available now!

September 13, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Denials & Appeals, CDI Management, Outpatient CDI, Education, Physician Queries, Quality & Regulatory

Every year, ACDIS celebrates clinical documentation specialists with a full week of activities, education, and fun. This year’s CDI Week theme is ACDIS Cinema—CDI: Coming to an Organization Near You, which aims to bring CDI professionals from behind the scenes and into the limelight,...Read More »

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