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 »
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. Cindy Whichard, RN, CCDS, the senior director of revenue integrity at Paramount Health Solutions in Denver, Colorado, a...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. Shirlivia Parker, MHA, RHIA, BS, CDIP, senior manager of physician partnerships/education and advocacy and an interim CDI...Read More »
