This tip card was donated by Martin Conroy, RHIA, director of CDI for Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, as a supplement to the July 12 episode of ACDIS Radio, "CDI on a shoestring." To listen to the July 12 episode of ACDIS Radio,...

This tip card was provided by Karen Bridgeman, MSN, RN, CCDS, as a supplement to her 2017 ACDIS Conference presentation, "Out of the Sandbox: Congenital Anomalies...

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
The AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS had both its third and fourth quarter 2016 editions published at the same time this fall. The combined publication is very long—the longest I have ever reviewed—so let’s start by looking at some of the changes to...

Created by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

This tool is a comprehensive summary of CMS quality measures. Please note, the information listed is as of July 2016, and will be outdated by next year at this time. 

Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, is the CDI Education Director at HCPro in Danvers, Mass., donated this presentation which includes sample queries for clinical indicators.

Linda Renee Brown, RN, MA, CCDS, CCS, CDIP, offers this physician education general education tip sheet adapted from Valley Medical Ctr, Renton, Washington. It covers heart, renal, and respiratory failure, basic good documentation behaviors, as well as information regarding the Integumentary...

This ICD-10-CM/PCS Quiz Slide Presentation was created by Kelley Sears and Cindy Labins for the December 2015 Massachusetts ACDIS Chapter meeting. Answers are included within the presentation following the question.

CMS has offered up its fair share of ICD-10-CM/PCS preparation materials--from videos to webinars and everything in between. This short eight-slide presentation, "ICD-10-CM/PCS the next generation of coding," offers a high level glimpse of ICD-10-CM/PCS essentials including external cause and...

Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS, regional manager of CDI and coding at SutterHealth in San Francisco, donated a sample ICD-10 sepsis tip sheet focused on documenting bacteremia, sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock.

Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS, CDI manager at Washington Adventist Hospital donated the attached 40-plus slide presentation regarding physician education and preparation for ICD-10.

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