Lourdes Albino Cacanindin, MD, CCDS, is a CDI specialist at Sutter Health–Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch, California, and is a member of the California chapter of ACDIS.
ACDIS: How long have you been in the CDI field?
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As the holidays pass by, it turns out that I’m the guy who was supposed to write a thank you note but never did. The thank you note is to ACDIS for throwing another fine Annual Conference this past May, this time at the Gaylord Palms Resort in...Read More »
Q: Our physician advisors are requesting the question and options be listed before the clinical indicators and treatment in the query. I could not locate any direction regarding this format in the current ACDIS/AHIMA physician query practice...Read More »
Q: Our coding team has established their own clinical criteria for a specific diagnosis despite what the physician is documenting and the clinical validity of those diagnoses. Could you please advise?Read More »
Valerie Parent, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCRN-K, is employed with Norther Light Health as the CDI manager at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, and is the leader of the Maine ACDIS chapter. Parent has held her CCDS credential since 2015.Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Cherri Sanders, RHIT, a CDI specialist at Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco, Washington, and a member of the 2019 CDI Week...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Sarah Matacale, RN, BSN, CCS, a CDI specialist at Vidant Health in Middlesex, North Carolina, and a member of the 2019 CDI...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Alisia Lee, MSN, RN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Singing River Health System in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and a member of the...Read More »
