Q&A: Understanding the relationship between CKD and hypertension

September 5, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 37
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: I’ve been told that if there are clinical indicators to support that CKD...Read More »

Ask ACDIS: Coding sepsis, UTI, and pneumonia

September 1, 2019
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 5
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: We recently had a patient who was admitted with sepsis and the physician documented sepsis, a urinary tract infection (UTI) related...Read More »

Q&A: Choosing a principal diagnosis

August 29, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 36
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries

Q: When a patient comes in with two diagnoses and the documentation reflects that either could be the principal diagnosis, do we...Read More »

Q&A: Understanding GMLOS

August 22, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 35
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: I’ve heard that the GMLOS is always rounded to the nearest whole number as...Read More »

Symposium spotlight: Baptist Health System’s CDI specialists are all on the same team—both inpatient and outpatient

August 19, 2019
CDI Blog - Volume 12, Issue 110
Ask ACDIS, Outpatient CDI

Jennifer Boles, CPC, CRC, Lori Ganote, MSN, RN, CCDS, and Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, will present “Joining Forces: How Ambulatory CDI Can...Read More »

Q&A: Should acute respiratory failure be the principal diagnosis?

August 15, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 34
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: I just had a case at work where the patient arrived in respiratory...Read More »

Q&A: CDI in home health

August 8, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 33
Ask ACDIS, CDI Expansion

ACDIS Podcast guests Caryl Liptak MSHAI, RHIA, system director of CDI and coding at Baptist Health Kentucky in Louisville,...Read More »

Q&A: Educating providers on root operations

August 1, 2019
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 32
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Education

Q: I’ve heard that provider education should not include lectures on the...Read More »

ACDIS Mailbag: Listener questions

July 31, 2019
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

With special guest Dawn R. Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, the CDI manager of education at Ardent Health Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN,...

Q&A: Sepsis criteria conundrum

July 30, 2019
CDI Blog - Volume 12, Issue 106
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Denials & Appeals

Q: Which sepsis criteria should we use? It seems like we get denials quoting every criteria set and...Read More »

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