CDI Management

The attached Unanswered query and query conflict escalation policy is a sample policy for handling unanswered physician queries and/or CDI/coding conflicts that require resolution. The policy is courtesy of Lynne Spryszak, RN, CCDS, CPC-A, CDI education director for HCPro, Inc.

Attached is the powerpoint presentation Organizational Definitions for Common Diseases: Why You Need Them and How to Get Them by Walker Robinson, MD, FACS, FAAP and Jens Yambert, MD, FACP, FACEP, physician advisors and members of the documentation improvement team at Carle Foundation...

Attached is the powerpoint presentation Using the “Dashboard” to Drive the CDI Process by Elizabeth Kennedy, RN, BS, CCS, CCDS, associate director for the documentation improvement program  and Janet Kasoff, RN, EdD, NEA-BC, BC, CPHQ, CPHIMS, both from Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx,...

Attached is the powerpoint presentation Benchmarking CDI: A Study of 37 Academic Medical Centers by Kathy Vermoch, MPH, Project Manager, Quality Operations University HealthSystem Consortium and Donald A. Butler, RN, BSN, Manager, Clinical Documentation Improvement Pitt County Memorial...

Attached is the powerpoint presentation Using Data to Recharge Your CDI Program by Elizabeth Bonetti, RN, MA, MS, account management manager will Dell Services Revenue Cycle Solutions and co-manager of the revenue cycle at Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York.