What is an ACDIS white paper?

An ACDIS white paper discusses CDI best practice, advances new ideas, increases knowledge, or offers administrative simplification. It can be written by a board member or a smaller subset of the board, or written by an external source and reviewed by the board. It is less formal than an ACDIS position paper. Note that sponsored content does not imply ACDIS endorsement.

With the enactment of new payment methodologies and an ongoing shift from fee for service-based payment to pay for performance in the healthcare industry, traditional inpatient CDI metrics including case mix index (CMI), length of stay, and complications/comorbidities/major complications/...

This paper discusses the concept of clinical validation as it has evolved through CMS regulations and coding guidance. It also attempts to establish consensus about how CDI professionals should incorporate clinical validation into their practice.

The following white paper provides an overview of the history of sepsis definitions, the changes set in motion in 2016 with the publication of Sepsis-3, and the evidence surfacing since then.

The following white paper provides national survey data on chart review productivity of CDI specialists, lists the variables that can reduce or enhance chart review productivity, and provides ACDIS’ recommendations on chart review productivity standards.

The following white paper demonstrates the importance of implementing a career ladder and/or incentive program for your CDI staff. It provides sample models of each that hospitals can consider and adapt for their own use.

During the 2015 Association for Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) Conference, a national work group of experienced pediatric CDI specialists including pediatricians, pediatric hospitalists, pediatric critical care physicians, nurses, and coding specialists was formed to...

by Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P

Documentation and coding of severe sepsis matters in terms of patient risk assessment and establishing sepsis as a diagnosis, as well as the effect of such documentation (and subsequent code assignment) on quality measures.

This white...

Touted for their ability to improve case-mix index and ultimately facility finances, clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs now need to expand reviews for quality indicators related to hospital value-based purchasing and other CMS pay-for-performance programs—not just because it’s the...

In order to facilitate the growth of outpatient CDI, the ACDIS Advisory Board has written the following white paper. Its goal is to explain what typically constitutes outpatient CDI, and to discuss ways in which CDI specialists can be leveraged to improve documentation associated with outpatient...

This white paper, written by ACDIS Advisory Board member Wendy DeVreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, CCDS, MBA, provides an overview of long-term acute care hospitals and how they differ from short-term acute care hospitals, with an emphasis on important differences in coding, reimbursement, and quality...

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