by Carolyn Riel
It’s common to see CDI job listings that require applicants to be registered nurses. Often an RN credential is not listed as being “preferred,” but required. There are risks, however, with only seeking candidates from this one background.
By Angelica Naylor, MBA, BSN, RN, CCDS
The year 2020: the year that changed all our lives in some form or another. The year 2020: also the year that confirmed racial and ethnic health disparities and inequalities are persistent and worsening for many in our society. Anyone...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
In this issue of the CDI Journal, Angelica Naylor, MBA, BSN, RN, CCDS, has presented us with both an exploration of the problem of health disparities and a call to action (see p. X). The question that follows is how do we, both as...Read More »
Rachel Mack, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC, is the consulting director of CDI at Vizient, Inc., based in Littleton, Colorado. She is the current leader of the Colorado chapter of ACDIS and has been in the CDI field since 2012.Read More »
FEATURES 6 Interdepartmental collaboration for denials management 14 CDI leaders’ perspective on denials management 22 Sepsis and malnutrition denials
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by Linnea Archibald
When people talk about CDI’s effect on an organization’s health, often they are referring to the traditional CC/MCC capture and DRG changes for financial improvement and accuracy associated with CDI reviews. Of course, we know that CDI professionals do so much...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
CDI teams have to work with other departments nearly daily in their line of work, be it the coding department, the clinical team, the quality department, or others. When it comes to denials management, this interdepartmental collaboration becomes even more...Read More »
by Sydni Johnson, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Denice Piwowar, BSN, RN, CCDS
CDI professionals generally consider clinical validation queries to be the most challenging queries to generate and format. As CDI managers and educators, we’re often asked how to request supporting indicators of a...Read More »