CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 4

Developing an onboarding process: Advice from the field

July 1, 2017
Policies & Procedures, Education

Have a new hire on the way? Without a set plan in place, the new staff member may end up with conflicting information or take significantly longer to train. Though not everyone approaches onboarding the same way, developing a transition and training plan streamlines the process, sets reasonable...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 4

News: PQRS penalties on hold

January 26, 2017
CDI Management, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries, Policies & Procedures

Some eligible professionals (EP) and group practices will get a pass for failing to meet 2016 Physician Quality Reporting requirements (PQRS) due to incomplete updates to ICD-10 code sets, CMS announced January 11.

CMS decided not to apply negative payment adjustments to EPs and group...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 4

News: CMS confirms 359,000 providers to participate in alternative payment models

January 26, 2017
CDI Management, News, Policies & Procedures

More than 359,000 providers will participate in CMS’ four alterative payment models, which are aimed at compensating providers for quality of care and thereby delivering...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 2

News: AHIMA revises its ‘Standards of Ethical Coding’

January 12, 2017
News, Policies & Procedures

Nearly every professional association provides some type of vocation-specific guidance regarding ethical behavior. Periodically such recommendations need to be revised or updated to meet the changing needs of the industry. Such revision now comes from the American Health Information Management...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Readmission reduction: The CDI effect

March 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Policies & Procedures, Quality & Regulatory

by Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) allows CMS to penalize hospitals with excess readmissions, as written in Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act, which added section 1886(q) to the Social Security Act. Specifically, the...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Case study: CDI reviews for mortality at Lenoir

March 1, 2017
CDI Expansion, Policies & Procedures, Quality & Regulatory

by Bonnet Tyndall, RN, CCDS

Mortality reviews are becoming more prevalent in the CDI world. But what do they really mean for CDI specialists? Some organizations have mortality review committees, but such reviews don’t always fall under CDI; they could be managed by the quality...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Physician Advisor Corner: Atypical presentations of disease and clinical validation

March 1, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding, Policies & Procedures

by Joel Moorhead, MD, PhD, CPC
This article is about bringing the patient to the center of clinical validation. A patient with an “atypical” presentation, by definition, may have the disease but might not meet “typical” criteria for diagnosis.Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 2

Radio Recap: CDI helps with severe sepsis bundle rollout

March 1, 2017
CDI Expansion, Clinical & Coding, Policies & Procedures

Septic patients can quickly deteriorate into severe sepsis cases if left unattended. “Once they have organ failure, it’s really hard to get those patients back,” Connie Chappelle, RN, MC, CLNC, risk management coordinator for Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas...Read More »

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