by Cherri Sanders, RHIT, and Heather Marie Smith, CCS-P
Our facility serves a large Medicare population, making it vulnerable to Medicare’s LCD/NCDs, and it experienced thousands of dollars in denials annually without fully understanding what was being denied and why. Everything...
by Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Robert Erickson, MD, CCDS
Essentia Health System is a member of an accountable care organization with over 75,000 members, and its outpatient CDI program touches over 60 clinics systemwide. This presentation provides attendees with tools...
by Sara Atwater, MD, MPH, and David Reece, BSN, RN, CCDS
Outpatient CDI has blurred definitions, few established guidelines/metrics, limited software, and a mostly “home-grown” group of relatives. This session provides insight from an established outpatient CDI program on...
ACDIS is working on a credential for those specifically working in the outpatient arena—the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist-Outpatient...Read More »
“HCCs [Hierarchical Condition Categories] aren’t just an ambulatory focus. This is inpatient and ambulatory, so it’s really important for [CDI...Read More »
