From the mailbag: Listener Q&A

Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts.

Featured solution:

Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®!

The Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp is ACDIS’ premier training for CDI specialists. Trusted by hundreds of CDI specialists as the go-to source for CDI education, this course defines the role of CDI specialists and provides comprehensive training on their responsibilities.

Improve your CDI know-how with ACDIS-endorsed best practices for medical record review and compliant physician querying. This class is taught live in a convenient virtual setting. Get the same small classes and personal touch and interaction we provide in the classroom!

Specifically, participants learn about MS-DRG methodology, including how MS-DRGs are assigned and how documentation affects code assignment and sequencing.

This is a rich, deep experience that includes discussion with CDI boot camp instructors regularly featured on the ACDIS Podcast.

To learn more or to register, click here! (http://ow.ly/7gbK30rvtrZ)

In the News:

• “Medicare cuts payment to 774 hospitals over patient complications,” from Kaiser Health News (http://ow.ly/fNaT30rzdRP)

ACDIS update:

• “Note from the Instructor: Grow the profession” by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, in CDI Strategies (http://ow.ly/2swI30rzdTj)