The necessity for submitting a query to the provider for the specificity of heart failure seems to remain one of the leading reasons to query year after year, despite the efforts of CDI specialists to provide robust education around...Read More »
When trying to effect change through CDI in home health or hospice care, one of the more difficult areas to address is external sources, such as the physician, the hospital, and the wound clinic, since these entities are not typically part of the...Read More »
Several posts ago I mentioned that there was a rant brewing inside of me about clinical validation. Like Dylan Thomas, I often “rage, rage, rage” against many things,...Read More »
According to a 2017 poll on the ACDIS website, 44% of respondents said their CDI team was not involved with denials management or the appeals process and had no plans to get involved in the...Read More »
The TRIC tactic to queries provides a quick and systematic approach that ensures the necessary components of the query are present and displayed in a compliant manner to the provider. TRIC is the acronym that stands for these four...Read More »
