The physician query process seeks to obtain accurate code assignment and ensure that the documentation accurately reflects the patient's clinical condition. It involves a collaborative effort between coding and CDI specialists, and physicians, to gather additional information and clarify details...
Despite significant strides, pediatric CDI still confronts unique hurdles, including systems and technologies originally designed for adult patients and the absence of standardized terminology and clinical indicators specific to children’s illnesses. In response, leaders in the field are...
As CDI has expanded from the inpatient to the outpatient space, questions regarding workflows, solutions, technology, and interdepartmental collaboration have also cropped up. If outpatient expansions are to be successful, these topics and their thornier aspects require further investigation,...
ACDIS survey reveals the strategic advancement and evolving role of the physician advisor
Physician advisors continue to establish themselves as key players within healthcare organizations. As healthcare grows more complex, the physician advisor’s
CDI is undergoing considerable changes, as seen in the fluidity of job roles, the adoption of remote work models, an uptick in retirements, and a trend of nurses not returning to their pre-pandemic CDI roles. Hospitals are revisiting and revising traditional reporting structures, increasingly...
The ACDIS CDI Leadership Council exists to connect leaders nationwide (and even internationally!) for conversations about the hot topics and trends in the CDI industry. A smaller subset of the Council, the Mastermind group, provides participants with an opportunity for focused brainstorming and...
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. CDI programs are an invaluable piece of a healthy healthcare organization’s ecosystem, and their impact can be felt in far reaching areas, but...
With an expanding CDI program, Piedmont Health knew they had to make a change to ensure program success. That change was implementing advanced technology that allowed their team to focus on reviewing the most...
Quality metrics and measurements are a crucial and prominent feature of CDI work. Because claims data is increasingly used to determine performance metrics on quality measures, and because the clinical criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of a given patient are determined by the accuracy of...
Stepping into a leadership role can be an exciting development in a CDI professional’s career journey, but it can also be overwhelming and isolating. A leader’s responsibilities are varied and far-reaching and new leaders may feel they are underwater. Rather than treading water alone, leaders...
