The quarterly reports issued by the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER)contain large amounts of data on how a...Read More »
As part of the first Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.
I previously started a conversation on CDI Talk entitled “Failed Programs,” hoping there might be someone willing to divulge an account of how and...Read More »
“Publicly marketed hospital rating systems of surgical quality such as the US News & World Report ‘America's Best Hospitals’ and HealthGrades...Read More »
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.
