by Priscilla Marlar, MHA, CSSBB, CPHQ, and John W. Cromwell, MD
Do you remember playing the game “Telephone” in grade school? The teacher would line us up and give the first student a spoken prompt to whisper to the next student, and so it would go until the message reached the...Read More »
As the profession’s relevance grows in the healthcare sphere, a CDI program’s efforts to improve the accuracy of clinical documentation reach far beyond the queries they send. Organizations benefit when the goals of CDI are incorporated into their physician...Read More »
This month, local chapter and networking group leaders should expect to receive an email from ACDIS Editor Jess Fluegel with the local chapter agreement form which must be filled out...Read More »
A good dish can and should stand on its own. But everyone knows that certain combinations—peanut butter and jelly, fruit and chocolate, burger and fries—enhance each other’s flavors so famously that the English language has adopted them as shorthand. If two things...Read More »
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized healthcare operations, offering speed and efficiency in tasks like clinical documentation review and insurance appeals. However, in a field where precision drives reimbursement and...Read More »
As a CDI professional, you’re likely familiar with the alphabet soup of regulations impacting your day-to-day work—IPPS, OPPS, MPFS, and more. But perhaps you are less familiar with bigger laws passed further upstream: laws that eventually make their way...Read More »
It was a Tuesday morning when a colleague from a sister facility agreed to meet with me concerning a change in staff workflow. During the conversation, she went over the first two steps. I had to stop her and write them down, then asked her to...Read More »
It’s often remarked that there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. However, if one briefly examines the field of CDI, one might be inclined to add a third: provider education.
If you want to move water from point A to point C, first you have...Read More »
