When Claudine Hutchinson, BSN, RN, started working as a pediatric staff nurse at the Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she didn’t know the first thing about clinical documentation improvement. In medical/surgical, orthopedics, hematology-oncology, and pulmonology, she...Read More »
One of the greatest pleasures of my role as the Associate Editorial Director for ACDIS is work- ing alongside such an amazing group of talented, knowledge- able, and generous members. Those working as CDI specialists hunger for education and information, and they are equally hun- gry for...Read More »
by Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS, and Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP
The debate regarding which profession makes the “best” CDI specialist unfortunately continues. Many facilities and consulting firms, initially trained to believe that only nurses could perform the duties of a CDI...Read More »
Q: I have a question regarding CDI practice by registered nurses (RN) in states in which they do not have an endorsement of their nursing licenses. Some facilities do not require this, whereas others do.
Obviously, it makes it much easier if the states in which an RN CDI...Read More »
by Wendy Frushon Tsaninos, RN, CCDS, CCS, CMSRN, MSTD
In the CDI industry, the remote CDI role is highly coveted. One way to attain such a position is to apply for employment with a supplemental staffing agency. Through this process, a candidate can be matched...Read More »
The 2016 ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice call on CDI or coding pro- fessionals to query physicians if the documentation:
Describes or is associated with clinical indicators without a definitive relationship to an underlying diagnosis
Editor’s note: ACDIS Advisory Board members Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, and Judy Schade, RN, MSN, CCM, CCDS, in conjunction with former ACDIS Advisory Board member and HCPro Director of HIM/Coding Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P...Read More »