As part of the eighth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Caryn Nowak, RHIA, CDIP, a clinical documentation specialist at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego...Read More »
I may have mentioned in these pages that despite (or in spite of) my transition to full-time bureaucracy, I still do some ER shifts every month. I do so for a number of reasons. First, I’ve always had this theory...totally unsupported by fact,...Read More »
Whether it be medical necessity, clinical validation, or coding-related—denials seem always on the rise. And those involved in denials management and appeals know how far reaching the...Read More »
Rebecca Robbins Willcutt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC, and Mary M. Rogers, CRC, CPC, COC, CCS present “Is Your Outpatient Query Process Compliant? Thinking Outside the Box: Building an Effective and Sustainable Ambulatory CDI Program,” on Day 1 of the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI....Read More »
By Marion Kruse, BSN, RN, MBA, and Jennifer Cavagnac, CCDS
The decision of when to query the physician represents an important aspect of the CDI program. In a perfect world, all cases would be reviewed within the first 24 hours of admission. However, due to staffing...Read More »
