by Carolyn Riel
While the CDI industry has evolved slowly away from strictly financial focuses to a more holistic record integrity approach that encompasses all aspects of the healthcare story, nearly 31% of CDI professionals still say that financial metrics take precedence over...Read More »
“We found this gold mine, and it was data analytics,” said Ashley Telisky, DO, MBA, CDI physician advisor at Albany (New York) Medical Center, during ACDIS’ fall 2020 online event Curtain Call: Behind the Scenes of Star-Studded CDI Programs, where she...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Most CDI programs came into being with the primary focus of financial improvement and reimbursement accuracy: capturing CCs/MCCs to shift the MS-DRG placement to one with a higher relative weight. The impacts of these efforts were straightforward to demonstrate,...Read More »
by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCS, CRC, CCDS
Over the last eight years, small pockets of the healthcare industry have been adapting an organizational culture that had its origins in mission-critical endeavors. These efforts mostly surround things such as clinical care processes and...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Though the adoption of outpatient CDI has been growing steadily over the years, it’s not always easy to prove the return on investment (ROI) for such efforts. While there will likely be struggles such as gaining buy-in from the C-suite and providers, developing an...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
As the CDI profession has grown, so has the diversity of job titles represented in the profession. Like many industries, with maturation comes specialization....Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
Productivity expectations are a tricky topic, often talked about in nonspecific terms that leave those trying to set benchmarks for their department lost in the mist. While productivity metric expectations should be...Read More »
