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 »
Elaine King, MHS, RHIA, CHP, CHDA, CDIP, FAHIMA, explores how emerging legislation and technology has created tremendous demand for CDI that extends beyond the traditional inpatient-focused initiatives into the outpatient arena. This session will explain how organizations can implement practical...
Auditors have been reviewing medical necessity for inpatient services for years and Recovery Auditors (RA) have recouped millions of dollars in...Read More »
Attached is the PowerPoint presentation "Migrating to Outpatient Ambulatory CDI: A Road Map to Getting Started", by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI, a manager with Accretive Health in Chicago.
