Physician’s mental health and professional feelings of burnout represents an ongoing concern, according to The Physicians Foundation. Some 58% of physicians reported feelings associated with burnout in a...Read More »
The ACDIS Forms & Tools Committee works to review materials donated to the ACDIS community for publication in the Forms & Tools Library for accuracy, compliance, relevance, and effectiveness.
Queries are a daily part of the CDI specialist’s workflow and are often a very important key performance indicator for facilities to track. When it comes to those physicians who are not responding to queries, there are a few different ways an organization can choose to track, or not track, this...Read More »
Strong physician documentation is key to ensuring correct reimbursement, accurate quality scores, decreased denials, and most importantly, positive patient outcomes. ACDIS...Read More »
At the end of 2020, we introduced our ACDIS Pocket Guide online resource tool, ACDIS PRO, allowing CDI specialists to take the latest Pocket Guide anywhere, virtually.
We have physician advisors who assist care management with observation cases and converting those cases to inpatient status when appropriate. They also do peer-to-peer reviews in real time. We’ve also started to incorporate the physician advisors into the CDI process. We review cases with them...Read More »