With special guests James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, president of CDIMD-Physician Champions, based in Nashville, Tennessee, and Paul R. Belton, RHIA, MHA, MBA, JD,...
The following Q&A is an abbreviated transcript of the...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel Payers deny claims on a wide variety of grounds, but it’s no secret that certain diagnoses seem to be frequent...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel According to the...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas When I was a kid, my siblings would tease me. They’d tell me I was wrong, that I didn’t know what I was talking...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS I'm writing this a few weeks before Halloween, but I'm already feeling haunted. The spirit in...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel CDI teams have to work with other departments nearly daily in their line of work, be it the coding department, the...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald When people talk about CDI’s effect on an organization’s health, often they are referring to the traditional CC...Read More »
by Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC Despite not having a formal denials management team at Penn Highlands Healthcare, I...Read More »
by Sydni Johnson, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Denice Piwowar, BSN, RN, CCDS CDI professionals generally consider clinical validation queries...Read More »