Education

Medical necessity .ppt May 2014 quarterly conference call

Tim Weister, RN, MSN, CCDS, explores how to include medical students in CDI training and presents how
Mayo Clinic CDI team partnered with its medical school to create a CDI training program.

Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, FHM, asks in this presentation "Do you ever wish that doctors would just change their ways and start documenting better? Why do most change efforts fail? How can we succeed in leading change?" In this presentation he outlines the necessary steps and the foundations for...

Timothy Brundage, MD, CCDS, and Sylvia Hoffman, RN, CCDS, C-CDI, CDIP, explain why obtaining physician buy-in to CDI is the most frustrating day-to-day aspect of CDI. The tools shared in this presentation demonstrate how pay for performance, quality metrics, ROM, and SOI scores in conjunction...

Abby Steelhammer, MBA/MHA, RN, and Larry Weems II, MD, provide insight and understanding for partnering and leveraging resources to meet overall organizational goals. The presentation includes an overview of Novant Health's CDI program dynamics and reviews its transformational team approach...

Andrew Rothschild, MD, MS, MPH, presentation explores how CDI specialists and coders are taught not to question a physician's clearly documented diagnosis. But what happens when that diagnosis seems to have come from left  field? Specialists and coders are also bound to clarify apparent...

Brent Hadder, MD, explores the ICU where multiple issues involving multiple organ systems and diagnoses occur simultaneously. He shares strategies implemented at the University of Iowa to improve surgical ICU documentation and coding. Hadder illustrates how a practicing physician and...

Mark N. Dominesey, RN, BSN, MBA, CCDS, CDIP, CHITS-CP, MCP, explains how to create and use a directed step query in order to increase physician participation in the query process and to maximize  specificity as demanded by ICD-10.