For those still trying to straighten out their budgets and priorities for 2017, I thought it might be helpful to reflect on a few larger industry trends that may significantly change the the focus of our efforts related to health...Read More »
Do you hold the CCDS certification? Do you know when it expires?
Once again, I heard from someone asking when his CCDS recertification is due. It expired and he wasn't happy. He changed jobs but hadn’t communicated his new email address to us.
ACDIS is not responsible for expired...Read More »
It’s been an exciting and illuminating month since I became the associate director for membership and product development for ACDIS. I took on the new role on January 4 and have been busy learning as much as I can about CDI, the association, and our members...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, CCDS
Your CDI program successfully obtained consistent results over the last few years, and all is right within the CDI world. Then, the facility case-mix index (CMI) unexpectedly drops. Provided it rebounds, one or two months below its usual average...Read More »
When Claudine Hutchinson, BSN, RN, started working as a pediatric staff nurse at the Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she didn’t know the first thing about clinical documentation improvement. In medical/surgical, orthopedics, hematology-oncology, and pulmonology, she...Read More »
by Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS, and Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP
The debate regarding which profession makes the “best” CDI specialist unfortunately continues. Many facilities and consulting firms, initially trained to believe that only nurses could perform the duties of a CDI...Read More »
The 2016 ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice call on CDI or coding pro- fessionals to query physicians if the documentation:
Describes or is associated with clinical indicators without a definitive relationship to an underlying diagnosis
