CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 5

Ask ACDIS: Remote CDI staff need state-specific licensure

September 1, 2016
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Management, Policies & Procedures

Q: I have a question regarding CDI practice by registered nurses (RN) in states in which they do not have an endorsement of their nursing licenses. Some facilities do not require this, whereas others do.

Obviously, it makes it much easier if the states in which an RN CDI...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 3

Guest Post: AMI 30-day mortality measures and CDI – Is your approach ischemic?

January 10, 2017
ACDIS Guidance, Policies & Procedures

by Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS

The 30-day all cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality outcome measure has been linked to hospital payments since the inception of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP) in fiscal year 2013. In February 2016, CMS announced that...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 2

Q&A: Be wary of over reliance on nurse practitioners for documentation

January 5, 2017
Ask ACDIS, Policies & Procedures

Q: We are getting pressure from our othopods to send all queries to their nurse practitioner (NP). Our facility bylaws allow NPs to function independently and they are allowed to answer queries without co-signature, so we routinely send queries to NPs who are caring for...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 2

Define outpatient CDI nuances

March 1, 2016
CDI Expansion, Policies & Procedures

by Anny Pang Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP
As healthcare providers increasingly accept financial risk associated with patient management due to the transition from fee-for-service to riskbased/ value-based reimbursement, the traditional model of healthcare reimbursement has been...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 10, Issue 1

Data dive: Leverage information for program growth

January 1, 2016
CDI Management, Policies & Procedures

“A graph is worth a thousand words,” says Matthew Bohl, business analyst for the CDI program at Baystate Health in Springfield, Massachusetts.Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 9, Issue 67

Reassess CDI metrics to ensure program progress

December 20, 2016
ACDIS Guidance, Policies & Procedures

Just because you can measure something doesn’t mean should measure it, Jon Elion, MD, founder and CEO, ChartWise Medical Systems, told ICD-10 Monitor’s Talk Ten Tuesday...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 9, Issue 44

Q&A: Pulling queries from patient charts

August 25, 2016
Ask ACDIS, CDI Management, Policies & Procedures

Q: At my facility, we are to “pull” bad or un-credible queries from patient charts and report the query to our manager. Is there any official guidance on this practice?Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 9, Issue 8

News: SGR passes without ICD-10 amendments; Survey says repeated delays hampered ICD-10 preparation; CMS notes another successful acknowledgment testing week

April 16, 2015
News, Policies & Procedures, Quality & Regulatory

At 11:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, Congress passed the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which effectively eliminated the more than 17-year battle over cuts to physician reimbursement associated with the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR).Read More »

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