CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 17

Q&A: Assessing CDI program success metrics

August 15, 2013
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Q: I have come across an ethical dilemma. We have a small CDI program and a “home grown” application we use to report metrics to the chief financial officer (CFO). In this, we track whether a CDI specialist’s query captured a CC/MCC. If it is the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 16

Q&A: How to determine an appropriate physician query response

August 1, 2013
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Q: I enjoyed listening to the ACDIS quarterly conference call in May. Someone on the call stated they have a physician response rate...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 15

Q&A: Escalating the query process to include clinical accuracy

July 18, 2013
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Q: During a recent  ACDIS Quarterly Conference Call a coder expressed discomfort regarding a nephrologist’s diagnosis of acute renal failure that did not meet RIFLE...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 7, Issue 14

Q&A: Including diagnosis from consult notes

August 14, 2014
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Q: How would the following be viewed if it was included in a cardiology consult note:

“Mr. X has paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. He had a recurrence last night which was asymptomatic. We think this happens all the time at...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 14

Q&A: Revising query policies for alignment with new practice brief

June 20, 2013
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Q: I am in a new CDI program and revising our physician query policy. While the ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice (released February 2013) states that it: "...augments and where applicable...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 7, Issue 13

Q&A: Identifying principal diagnosis for possible adverse effect

June 6, 2013
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Q: We recently had a difficult case regarding a query for acute renal failure. Here is the scenario:

An 80-year-old woman came into the emergency room (ER) because she ran into the bumper of a car while driving her electric scooter and sustained a...Read More »
CDI Leadership Insider - Volume 7, Issue 12

Council member Q&A: CDI and case management salaries

December 8, 2025
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ACDIS CDI Leadership Council members have access to a dedicated thread on the ACDIS Forum to collaborate and share experiences with one another. Members are encouraged to visit the Forum and weigh in on any topic with which they have experience. In order to share the information more broadly,...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 7, Issue 12

Q&A: Clinical definitions and core measure capture

July 30, 2014
Ask ACDIS, Quality & Regulatory

Q: How have you handled situations when specialty physicians and hospitalists do not agree with diagnoses impacting core measures?

A: It becomes difficult because the clinical definitions of some disease processes are a little bit tricky. In specific...Read More »

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