As part of the twelfth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Hiral Patel, MHI, BSN, RN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center in Dallas,...Read More »
Based on a study led by researchers at multiple universities and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, primary care providers would need 26.7 hours per day to see an average number of patients....Read More »
Q: A few facilities in our system have a schedule for certain units, such as the trauma unit. The physicians listed are the ones scheduled to cover those units. We are being instructed to go ahead and query those physicians if we see an opportunity even if the provider has not...Read More »
Q: Recently, we had a provider who responded to the multiple-choice query, but they didn’t pick the answer we wanted, even though it met the clinical criteria. I’ve been taught previously that when a physician selects a non-desirable answer, the CDI specialist should close the query...Read More »
Clinician compensation and productivity were greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, HealthLeaders reported. Since then, the American Medical Group Association (AMGA)...Read More »
Q: We are looking more closely at the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) definitions of admission type, specifically urgent versus elective. We have received several inquiries from the care teams to update cases from elective to urgent; however, when we look at the timeline...Read More »
Q: We have a process on the inpatient side of our CDI program to only place three queries on a chart to avoid query fatigue. How do you manage the number of queries/alerts to a primary care provider in the ambulatory space? There may be 10–15 hierarchical condition categories (HCC) that need to...Read More »
