When Dee Banet, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, and her CDI team sent out a claim for a surgical patient with body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 with morbid obesity as a secondary diagnosis, they did not expect the claim to be denied; after all they...Read More »
Melinda Scharf, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, regional clinical documentation integrity educator at St. Joseph Hospital in Irvine, California, has worked in CDI since 2008 after serving as a pediatric nurse for 10 years and an ER nurse for 11.Read More »
The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is August 30, 2017. You must complete your online quiz...Read More »
The biggest and best event of the year for CDI specialists took place in May—the ninth annual ACDIS Conference. More than 2,000 attendees joined us in Atlanta—a group that included CDI specialists, managers,...Read More »
The 30-day all cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality outcome measure has been linked to hospital payments since the inception of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP) in fiscal year 2013. In February 2016, CMS announced that...Read More »
Record numbers of people took the CCDS exam in December and early January before the new version of the exam took effect on January 18. In the period December 1 to January 16 alone, 355 people passed the exam and earned their CCDS.
Now, the focus is on the new exam and people want to...Read More »
Earlier this year, ACDIS members identified their top concerns for 2016 in a membership survey. Physician engagement, physician education, and physician pushback were listed as struggles one, two, and three. While we may have hoped that providers would come to inherently appreciate the work...Read More »