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.
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.
The number of respondents to ACDIS’ 2016 CDI Salary Survey increased to more than 1,000—up from just over 800 in 2015. Unfortunately, the increased participation didn’t correlate to a large bump in salary ranges. Salaries of those in the $70,000–$79,999 range rose by just 2%, as did those...
