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...
Lisa A. D. Lanier, BS, CCS, covers ensuring medical necessity for common outpatient services, including improving documentation to secure diagnoses needed to support diagnostic tests and procedures performed in the ED and clinic setting.
CDI specialists typically review inpatient records to obtain specificity related to principal and secondary diagnosis. As a profession, such...Read More »
