We are celebrating Throw Back Thursday (#TBT) today with $100 off admission to the 2019 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI with code OPTBT100 at check out. The event takes place November 14-15 at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas. The ACDIS symposium is the only...Read More »
From August through October there will have been nearly 30 local events offering CDI education and networking across the country. Now, some of these chapters host small, after-hour-type sessions gathering 15 or 20 people to talk about an issue. If these 30 events gathered a minimum of 20...Read More »
CDI management has to be creative when it comes to staff retention.
Consider what it costs to train a CDI specialist. Most of the time, CDI specialists are hired with no experience. To start, they likely need up to three months of training and oversight. This can get costly, as it can add...Read More »
This is it: my last day on Certification Watch here at ACDIS. It’s been a good run and I’m grateful for the relationships, friendships, and the love. I even learned a lot from the tough conversations, mostly about myself.
ACDIS celebrated its ninth annual CDI Week from September 16-20, recognizing CDI professionals across the country for the incredible work they do. Facilities and local chapters nationwide joined the fun, embracing the theme, “CDI Superheroes: The Heroes Hospitals Deserve” fully with posters,...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. Rachelle Buol, RHIA, the director of coding and CDI at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, and a member of the 2019 CDI Week...Read More »
The Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) is proud to sponsor the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week. This week is a time to recognize CDI specialists for the critical role they perform within the healthcare industry. It's also a...Read More »
Now more than a decade removed from CDI programs’ widespread adoption, CDI professionals have an impact on nearly all aspects of healthcare—from reimbursement, to quality reporting, to denials prevention and appeal writing, to patient care. That’s what the 2019 CDI Week theme celebrates—“CDI...Read More »