CDI professionals often work with physicians and coders, but record reviews also lend themselves to collaboration with case management. Part of a case manager’s job is to look at documentation in the medical record from the standpoint of medical necessity, meaning the justification for the...Read More »
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to get more involved with CDI and ACDIS, we have a suggestion for you: The Journal is ACDIS’ bimonthly publication which includes regulatory information, news, clinically-based articles, case studies, and membership profiles. Many of those...Read More »
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to get more involved with CDI and ACDIS, we have a suggestion for you: The Journal is ACDIS’ bimonthly publication which includes regulatory information, news, clinically-based articles, case studies, and membership profiles. Many of those...Read More »
By Julian Everett, BSN, RN, CDIP
I clearly remember the day my director told me I’d be reviewing our pediatric mortality cases. I didn’t know where to begin, and our pediatric CDI program was only a year old. Before I could start tackling the problem, I had to learn as much about...Read More »
The following is a list of upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters. If you have an upcoming event you would like to include, please email Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Linnea Archibald (...Read More »
With more than 40 local chapters, networking groups, and even international CDI efforts related to ACDIS, some are surprised to learn that there is no direct financial relationship between the national organization and these component groups.Read More »
by Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS
In response to providers’ complaints of burdensome regulatory documentation, CMS proposed in July 2018 to reduce the number of evaluation and management (E/M) levels to two and reduce documentation requirements for...Read More »
A quarter of respondents call their CDI program’s relationship with coding “fair” or “poor” according to a September 26, 2018, ACDIS Radio episode. Despite being called the bridge between the coding and clinical worlds, CDI professionals frequently need to build or repair their relationship with...Read More »
