Years of growth have allowed CDI programs to put down deep roots and establish themselves as an indispensable part of an organization’s overall health. That maturity, however, does not mean CDI programs can rest on their laurels and become stagnant. Many professionals are drawn to CDI as a...
As CDI professionals work tirelessly on a tight budget, often with limited staffing resources available, they’re frequently faced with overwhelmed providers. To safeguard the bottom line and secure adequate resources to care for their patient population, many organizations are leaning on their...
It seems that denials have only been increasing over the years. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations simply cannot afford to hemorrhage money to unwarranted and unfounded denials. This imperative creates a natural entry point for CDI programs to help stem the tide. CDI...
For many years, clinical documentation integrity (CDI) was primarily a manual process, beginning with a specially trained nurse or coding professional who combed through paper medical records and retrospectively evaluated clinical evidence to identify...
Today’s clinical documentation integrity (CDI) leaders juggle many priorities at once, balancing CDI departmental needs and bandwidth against the needs and goals of the broader organization.
In collaboration with 3M Health Information Systems, ACDIS issued a survey in January 2022 to...
The ACDIS CDI Leadership Council connects leaders across the country for conversations about the hot topics and industry trends in CDI. A smaller subset of the Council, the Mastermind group, provides participants with an opportunity for focused brainstorming and problem solving. The Mastermind...
At the August 2022 ACDIS Physician Advisor Exchange, physician advisors explored new denial patterns, emerging challenges, and opportunities for improvement during three discussion panels on Denials Management and Quality, led by Rebecca Hendren, ACDIS director of programming....
As more organizations and physicians enter into risk-based compensation plans, they face the enormous responsibility of managing care for large patient populations with a range of complex medical conditions and diagnoses that must be documented to receive payment in the following calendar year....
