Note: This post is part three of four, excerpted from an article originally published in JustCoding. Read the first installment published on November 15. ...Read More »
I was looking through old drafts of blog posts and came upon some notes from ACDIS blogger Linda Renee Brown. She wrote that sometimes CDI professionals look for expert advice and that once they identify it, they follow it to the letter. But “What’s an expert...Read More »
The following white paper demonstrates the importance of implementing a career ladder and/or incentive program for your CDI staff. It provides sample models of each that hospitals can consider and adapt for their own use. The clinical documentation improvement (CDI) profession has grown from a...Read More »
Join our amazing ACDIS Boot Camp instructors beginning on December 5 in Charleston, South Carolina for a look at how documentation affects quality metrics, including Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) and hospital-acquired infections (HAI), and more....Read More »
This October celebrates the eight month anniversary of the February release of the intellectually stimulating, yet controversial, third international consensus ...Read More »
The MS-DRG shift driven by the switch to ICD-10 will impact diagnoses throughout ICD-10-CM, says Gloryanne Bryant, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer with more than 30 years of experience in HIM.
Not otherwise specified (NOS) codes offer...Read More »
When Karen Elmore, RN, BSN, CCDS, documentation quality coordinator at Boone Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, was asked to help start a CDI program at her facility nearly eight years ago, she knew her background as a nurse educator would pay off.Read More »
