Annual Wellness Visits: Creating a Process Using CDI Specialists Tamara A. Hicks, RN, MHA, ACM-RN, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O, director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plus Sandra Love, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O...
Why Risk It All? Creating a Multidisciplinary Ambulatory CDI Program for a Fee-for-Service-Driven Academic Medical Center Sarah Kirchofer, MS, NP-C, NE-BC, primary care nurse director and board-certified nurse practitioner at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston,...
Alternative Payment Models: Oncology and CDI Beth Wolf, MD, CPC, CCDS, medical director of HIM at Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina
The Oncology Care Model, a five-year project (2016–2021) initiated by CMS, aimed to reduce the cost...
Solid Documentation for Medical Decision Making in E/M: Ensure Your Providers Get a GOLD Medal and Not a “Participation” Trophy Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CRC, CCDS, CCDS-O, director of HIM and coding at HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts....
Capturing Severity in the Outpatient Setting Susan Egan, CPC, CPMA, CRC, CEDC, associate director, Jessica M. Thurman, PA-C, MBA, MSPA, associate director of healthcare revenue cycle management-CDI, and April Vogel, RHIA, CHC, managing consultant, healthcare, at...
HCCs, Queries, and the Meteoric Rise of Telemedicine Encounters Mary Rogers, CCDS-O, CCS, CPC, COC, CRC, supervisor of CDI–professional practices, and Patricia Swierczynski, RN, CCDS, CRC, CCDS-O, manager, CDI department at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New...
Provider organizations are increasingly adopting computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) and artificial intelligence (AI) for Clinical Documentation Integrity, providing physicians with efficient, real-time support as they document in the EHR.
Over the years, CDI professionals have been tasked with more and more responsibilities. This increase in scope can be linked to the general expansion and transition of healthcare from quantity-based to quality-based reimbursement, but also simply to the fact that CDI programs have proved...
CDI departments across the country are playing a more critical role in healthcare than ever before. With greater responsibility carries greater challenges for CDI Leaders and their teams.
“In order to rise to these challenges, we must consider what we can do — both on the front and...
Today’s guests are Mary Rogers, CCS, CRC, COC, CPC, CCDS-O, supervisor of CDI, professional practices, and Patricia Swierczynski, RN, CRC, CCDS, CCDS-O, manager...