When providers use different definitions for the same disease, confusion and chaos result. Inaccurate definitions allow Recovery Auditors (i.e., RACs) ample opportunities for denials, depriving your facility of valuable dollars/patient care resources....Read More »
It’s a question asked by many new to the CDI field: “What is CDI?” When I first interviewed for the CDI editor position at ACDIS, I quickly Googled the term, finding translations like “customer data integration” and “capacitor discharge ignition.” Clearly, I...Read More »
Some estimates put CDI programs in more than half of healthcare organizations in the United States today. As programs mature, however, the mechanics of daily record review and assessment have become just that: mechanical, leaving many...Read More »
Q: I recently took over a pre-existing, three-year-old program as its department manager and find myself in the unfavorable position of having to re-educate the CDI staff. It seems they were never trained on basic CDI principles such as querying for the etiology of the symptom(s...Read More »
Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, is the national director clinical documentation improvement educator, performance management and innovation division for Tenet Healthcare Corporation. She’s been involved in CDI since 2006, and finding the position offered a career in which...Read More »
The AHA wrapped up its Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS advice for 2014 by answering a lot of questions regarding the coding of surgical procedures/ interventions—a trend we’ve seen over the last several issues of the publication. Let’s take a look at...Read More »
The quarterly CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is January 1, 2016.You...Read More »
Another tradition in my household is to take some time around the dinner table on New Year’s day to talk about some of the things we’re grateful for that happened to us in the year that passed. Such reminisces often raise interesting thoughts. All together as...Read More »
