Note from the Associate Editorial Director: Consider the peer audit

November 9, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 53
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

By Melissa Varnavas

Back in 2015, 40% of...Read More »

Ask ACDIS: Midlevel advanced practice providers answering queries

November 1, 2017
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 6
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: My facility is discussing querying advanced practice providers (APP). Does ACDIS have any official opinion on this? To clarify, the...Read More »

Q&A: When to query for pleural effusion etiology

October 12, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 49
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries

Q: We recently had a patient with a pleural effusion who came to the...Read More »

From the Forum: Reporting queries’ negative financial effect for compliance’s sake

October 5, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 48
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries, Education

Show me the money. The Jerry Maguire quote is a phrase CDI professionals are likely also familiar with. Originally, CDI programs cropped...Read More »

2017 CDI Week Q&A: Physician Engagement

September 22, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 46
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a...Read More »

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2017 CDI Week Q&A: Physician Engagement

September 22, 2017
Q&As

As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.

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2017 CDI Week Q&A: Clinical Validation

September 19, 2017
Q&As

As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.

PDF icon 2017 CDI Week Q&A-Clinical Validation.pdf

Q&A: Receiving query responses from providers

September 7, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 125
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: Our hospital is having a hard time getting our physicians to respond to queries, do you have any suggestions on how to get them to...Read More »

The denials landscape: Physicians' perspectives

September 1, 2017
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 5
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries, Denials & Appeals

No matter how thorough the documentation, no matter how precise the coding, denials still haunt the halls of most facilities. While many...Read More »

Guest Post, Part 2: Where do we stand with clinical validation?

August 31, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 122
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

By Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS

At the 2017 ACDIS conference in May, Nelly Leon Chisen, RHIA...Read More »

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