"[Recovery Auditors] are doing a really good job at identifying the patients who don't have sepsis, and they're taking the money back," says ACDIS Advisory Board member Robert S. Gold, MD, CEO of DCBA, Inc., in Atlanta.
Q:When atelectasis is noted on an ancillary test such as a CT-scan of the abdomen or chest x-ray can nursing documentation of turning, coughing, and deep breathing considered an intervention that qualifies as one of the criteria to meet a secondary diagnosis?...Read More »
ACDIS CDI Leadership Council members have access to a dedicated thread on the ACDIS Forum to collaborate and share experiences with one another. Members are encouraged to visit the Forum and weigh in on any topic with which they have experience. In order to share the information more broadly,...Read More »
ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald sends out “missed connections” emails with questions from Council members on a regular basis. Anyone with experience related to one of the questions was invited to respond and Archibald connected them with the question-asker. In order to share...Read More »
Coders and clinicians seem to speak different languages. CDI specialists often serve as the translators between clinicians and coders, so it's important that all three groups work together.
Both coders and CDI specialists can query physicians when documentation:
by Wendy Whittington, MD, MMM
Physicians are grappling with understanding what all of the changes in healthcare mean for their patients and themselves, and CDI efforts are part of that equation.
I am privileged to be part of the faculty group that teaches physicians in the...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS,CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, C-CDIS, CCDS The No. 1 struggle most CDI specialists face is getting physicians engaged in CDI, to provide accurate, specific, consistent documentation in the record. Unfortunately, unless healthcare is reformed to the point...Read More »
