As always, CDI Week 2018 was a blast and we’re all sad that it’s the last day of this year’s celebration. Those of you who’ve been following along know that ACDIS has offered a series of discounts this week on a variety of products. Today is the last day to take advantage of all these discounts...Read More »
As part of the eighth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Priscilla Stuart, MS, RHIA, CCS, is a CDI specialist at Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s...Read More »
I may have mentioned in these pages that despite (or in spite of) my transition to full-time bureaucracy, I still do some ER shifts every month. I do so for a number of reasons. First, I’ve always had this theory...totally unsupported by fact,...Read More »
Rebecca Robbins Willcutt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC, and Mary M. Rogers, CRC, CPC, COC, CCS present “Is Your Outpatient Query Process Compliant? Thinking Outside the Box: Building an Effective and Sustainable Ambulatory CDI Program,” on Day 1 of the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI....Read More »
Q: I was originally taught to do subjective, objective, assessment, and plan notes for a prior job with principal diagnosis listed first. Do I need to intervene when providers change the first-listed diagnosis from...Read More »