As a preview of the eleventh annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a...Read More »
When a patient comes in with two diagnoses and the documentation reflects that either could be the principal diagnosis, do we choose the principal...Read More »
As a preview of the eleventh annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a...Read More »
As a preview of the eleventh annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a...Read More »
Our system is seeing increasing cases being denied inpatient care with the suggestion that the cases should have been billed as observation. Right...Read More »
Q: We recently had a situation where a CDI reviewer sent a multiple-choice query and the physician responded and agreed that the diagnosis...Read More »
Currently, when we ask clinical validation queries, we do not take a financial impact into account. We only reconcile as "agreed and documented."...Read More »
I’ve heard that the geometric length of stay (GMLOS) is always rounded to the nearest whole number as inpatient claims are paid by day. Based on...Read More »
We recently had a patient admitted with severe acute meningitis causing respiratory decompensation. A diagnostic lumbar puncture and mechanical...Read More »
