This week, please take a minute to get to know Kerry Seekircher, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, director of CDI at Northern Westchester hospital/Northwell Health in Mount Kisco, New York.Read More »
Tammy Combs, RN, MSN, CDIP, CCS, CCDS, will present “How to Mitigate and Manage Denials,” on Day 2 of the ACDIS conference. Combs is the director of HIM practice excellence, CDI/nurse planner at AHIMA in Chicago, Illinois....Read More »
Q:Our facility does not have a standard appeal letter template to respond to medical necessity denials. Do you have any suggestions for how to respond? Read More »
Editor’s note: There are more than 40 local chapters and networking groups across the country and internationally, each led by a team of dedicated volunteers. To support these volunteers the...Read More »
Jennifer Crumb, RN, BSN, CCDS, will be presenting “Navigating the Ice Age in CDI: When You Are Holding on to the Iceberg,” on Day 1 of the ACDIS conference along with Jennifer Woodworth, RN, BSN, and Ashlyn Hard, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIS.Read More »
Before my time in CDI, in the cold, deep darkness of the ED night, sepsis was an annoyance. Everywhere there was a sepsis flag popping up in the EHR, few of which actually meant anything.Read More »
It was early morning and I was up to my elbows (literally) inside a huge turkey. No one else was up but the doctor in our family. We chatted as I dressed the turkey and he answered his charting deficiencies on a laptop nearby.Read More »
