Have you ever wanted to call into talk radio, but never got the chance? Or, maybe, you’ve had a few burning questions you’ve always wanted to ask your favorite talk show host?
Well now you can! The ACDIS Podcast is presently soliciting your questions for an upcoming episode.Read More »
Q: Do your query templates ever include the clinical criteria needed to establish the diagnosis being queried when multiple choice diagnoses are offered? For example, on a sepsis query, does the query itself include the institutional criteria for establishing the diagnosis or is this...Read More »
Q: I am the team lead/educator for second level review staff, and our division is required to do an eight-hour education and team-building day. I am wondering if anyone has team-building exercises that they have done remotely to keep staff engaged and participating? We use Microsoft...Read More »
Q: I am interested in others’ approaches to certain risk adjustment diagnoses like malnutrition and pathology results. At our facility, the CDI department writes all the queries, so the coder will send a request to query to the CDI specialist if the attending physician has not...Read More »
Q: I’m looking to gather some insights on CDI productivity policies currently in use. Could anyone share the policies you’re implementing at the moment?
Response #1: Previously, we were expecting 25 accounts per day and a 25% query rate...Read More »
Q: Are there any coding guidelines that should be considered for NICU populations?
A: There are very specific coding guidelines concerning newborns, including conditions that arise following the hospital stay, that both coders and CDI...Read More »
A: For CDI programs that have CDI staff reviewing patient safety indicator (PSI) cases, how are PSI reviews set up? Do you have a dedicated CDI staff member for these reviews? Is it a shared task among the group or is there a PSI team? Do you meet regularly with the quality team, and...Read More »
Q: Consider a patient who is readmitted for postoperative pain control after a lung transplant two days prior. How would coders report this type of surgical complication in ICD-10-CM? In general, what are the guidelines for coding pain as a surgical complication of transplantations...Read More »
