Lisa M. Adkins, MSN, RN, CPNP, CRCR, CPHM; Valerie A. Bica, BSN, RN
Are you a pediatric hospital faced with the uncertainty of ACO involvement and increased denials from payers for “non-specific codes”? Learn how Nemours/A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware,...
This session will examine specific outpatient settings such as home health, hospice, outpatient infusion centers, and clinics with employed providers, each with inter-related requirements for documentation,...
Mount Carmel Health System successfully implemented one of the nation’s first observation CDI programs. Attendees will learn how in addition to reducing observation patient length of stay and supporting appropriate patient status, the...
Risk adjustment requires coding and CDI professionals to work together as one team to ensure the capture of the most appropriate risk score for...Read More »
Broadening the scope of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) into the outpatient arena has been a growing topic of discussion in recent years. As the overall healthcare industry shifts its focus from volume of services delivered to overall quality of care, the need for complete and accurate...
In order to facilitate the growth of outpatient CDI, the ACDIS Advisory Board has written the following white paper. Its goal is to explain what typically constitutes outpatient CDI, and to discuss ways in which CDI specialists can be leveraged to improve documentation associated with outpatient...
