2025 CDI Leadership Mastermind Hot Topic Guide, Part 2: Productivity, staffing, AI, and DRG downgrades

As the CDI world has expanded, leaders in the industry have been tasked with increasingly varied responsibilities, often without a network of colleagues to help troubleshoot issues encountered along the way. Thus, they frequently must look beyond their organization to collaborate with peers and trade advice. The ACDIS CDI Leadership Council connects leaders nationwide for conversations about hot topics and industry trends, but a smaller subset of the Council, the Mastermind group, gives participants the opportunity for focused brainstorming and problem solving.

This multitopic report, produced in partnership with Solventum, formerly 3M Health Care, shares takeaways from the second half of the 2025/2026 CDI Leadership Council Mastermind term. These conversations cover a range of leadership topics, including productivity, staffing, artificial intelligence (AI) use, and DRG downgrades.

We hope that you’ll read the resource fully, but also that you can use it for focused guidance on topics central to your CDI program’s needs.