As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Johanne “Jo” Brautigam, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDI manager at Roper St. Francis in Charleston, South Carolina, the president-elect...Read More »
I don’t know about all you folks out there, but sometimes working in the trenches and doing chart reviews all day long can get a little bland…as bland as my light grey cubicle accentuated by the (not-so) glow of the florescent lighting down in the...Read More »
Cassi Birnbaum, MS, RHIA, CPHQ, FAHIMA, will present “Leading the Way with Ambulatory Single-Path Documentation Excellence” on Day 1 of the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI, which takes place November 14-15 at...Read More »
Alasha L. Hunt, RN, RT(R) CT, joined the CDI professional a little more than a year ago and works as a CDI specialist at Garrett Regional Medical Center in Oakland, Maryland. Though it’s more than three hours away, she plans to attend the annual Maryland ACDIS local chapter conference on...Read More »
The average adult, according to various sites on the internet, makes roughly 35,000 decisions per day—deciding everything from what to have for breakfast to what time to go to bed and all the decisions in-between. Interestingly, about 250 of...Read More »
In addition to the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting applicable to the inpatient code assignment and the ICD-10-CM/PCS code set, two sets of guidelines exist solely for evaluation and management (E/M) coding—...Read More »
Jennifer Boles, CPC, CRC, Lori Ganote, MSN, RN, CCDS, and Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, will present “Joining Forces: How Ambulatory CDI Can Collaborate with Inpatient CDI Staff” on Day 1 of the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI,...Read More »
