by Monica Tyiska, MBA-PM, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPMA, CHA, OHCC, CCP-P
The traits that make us different from one another bring value to our places of employment and to our whole world. In recent years, organizations have begun to recognize the strength of diversity and focus their...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
While many people from bedside nursing and coding fields choose to enter the realm of CDI later on in their careers, foreign-trained physicians are often drawn into the world of CDI because of the difficulty getting a license to practice medicine in the United...Read More »
by Brian Murphy
In the summer of 2020, our nation witnessed what seemed to be a weekly string of disturbing, terrible incidents involving violence perpetrated on people of color. We know the victims today, by name, due to the calls for justice from the voices of hundreds of...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
In many ways, 2020 was a year of reckoning for the United States and the world as a whole. While the COVID-19 pandemic revealed ways in which our public health initiatives need reforming, the wrongful deaths of several Black and other minority individuals at...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
There are times in life where most people need advocacy, be it with a career opportunity, clashes with friends and family, or obstacles in their personal life. Generally, people can draw on others’ help in achieving those goals, but there might also come times when...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
By now, most readers know how much I love a good extended metaphor. The turning of the new year presents so many opportunities to pick up on all that symbolism of change. Usually, I relish the opportunity to exercise a little magic eight ball consultation,...Read More »
by Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC, MSHIM, RHIA
Recent audit activity and the Office of Inspector General’s continued scrutiny toward malnutrition diagnoses, let’s spend a little time digging into the coding and documentation requirements for this tricky diagnosis...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
By definition, “adversity relates to any difficulty or misfortune, essentially any barrier a person faces, whether it be socioeconomic, due to race or ethnicity, or any other limiting factors that would pose itself in the opposition to the accomplishment of one’s...Read More »
