As documentation requirements grow more complex and payer scrutiny continues to increase, many healthcare organizations are discovering that maintaining documentation integrity requires more than concurrent CDI reviews alone. Gaps in communication, siloed...
Rising denials are putting unprecedented pressure on hospital and health system finances, forcing organizations to do more with less while striving to maintain high-quality patient care. Those in the CDI and revenue integrity fields are increasingly being asked to help fight the rising denial...
Historically, CDI performance has been evaluated based on review and query rates. With the adoption of new CDI technology and best practices, Vanderbilt Health’s CDI team transitioned to an outcomes-driven, mission-focused program. Join Vanderbilt Health's Senior Director of Clinical...
CDI departments today are required to take on multiple projects to support their organizations’ overall health, which means the days of focusing solely on reimbursement and DRG accuracy are over. The Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists’ (ACDIS) recent CDI Leadership...
Even the best CDI teams can't realistically review every data point in every patient chart.
UAMS, McLaren Health, and Novant Health each figured out how to solve that problem in a way that actually worked for their teams — and it drove real financial results.
Meaningful metrics can help leaders paint the picture of their department’s worth to organizational leadership, building the case for departmental expansion over time. Managing the data, however, could be a leader’s full-time job. The Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists...
As the industry has matured and proved its worth for healthcare organizations, CDI departments are increasingly asked to take on more responsibilities, often with the same staffing they’ve always had. Fortunately, in many cases, the advent of technological systems has helped CDI teams do more...
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...
Reviewing every data point of every patient chart? Your CDI team is great, but that’s a humanly impossible task. That’s because there are 30,000 data points per patient chart and 156,000+ ICD-10 codes. Simply put — manually conducting an exhaustive review of every chart is impossible.
