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....
After two-plus years of tight educational and staffing budgets, the CDI field is undergoing a bit of a hiring boom, allowing teams to expand to new review areas and deepen their existing ones. Determining when to hire and how to orient and train new staff members can be challenging, though. And...
Ensuring accurate documentation, capturing a true clinical picture, and pushing quality objectives are always front of mind for CDI teams. Yet CDI leaders also can’t ignore that revenue is becoming a more critical component as hospitals face bottom-line losses due to COVID-19. As leaders strive...
The current trajectory of U.S. healthcare points to the growing number of outpatient visits and procedures. As a result, alignment of quality measures, data accuracy, and revenue integrity are important initiatives in the outpatient setting. Yet, many healthcare organizations struggle with where...
