CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 45

Note from the ACDIS Interim Director: New compliant query practice brief will publish October 10

October 6, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC

October 10 is the scheduled release of the 2022 update to the co-authored ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice©*. This practice brief supersedes all previously published versions. ACDIS and...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 44

Q&A: UHDDS requirements for obesity

September 29, 2022
Ask ACDIS, Denials & Appeals, Physician Queries

Q: Does your facility currently abide by any policies when it comes to coding ‘obesity’ and/or ‘morbid obesity’ in terms of requirements for the provider to document how the diagnosis has met the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) definition of ‘monitoring, evaluating,...Read More »
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CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 40

2022 CDI Week Q&A: Provider engagement—sponsored by Nuance

September 14, 2022
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

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 »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 34

News: 41% of physicians observed colleagues behaving inappropriately, report says

August 25, 2022
News, Physician Queries

In a survey of more than 1,500 doctors, Medscape’s 2022 “Physicians Behaving Badly: Stress and Hardship Trigger Misconduct” report shows 41% of physicians have seen other clinicians behave...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 32

News: Primary care providers need 26.7 hours a day to give patients recommended care, study shows

August 11, 2022
News, Physician Queries

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 »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 31

Q&A: Ethical prospective querying

August 4, 2022
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

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 »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 28

Q&A: Re-querying when a provider chooses the ‘wrong’ query response

July 14, 2022
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

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 »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 27

News: Clinician compensation approached pre-pandemic levels in 2021, according to survey

July 7, 2022
News, Physician Queries

Clinician compensation and productivity were greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, HealthLeaders reported. Since then, the American Medical Group Association (AMGA)...Read More »

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