A few weeks ago, ACDIS put out a call for members to nominate a colleague to be featured on the ACDIS Blog. We received a number of responses, but this one stood out. Kristi Repetto, RN, BSN, CCDS, director of CDI at Lee Health in Fort Meyers, Florida, nominated her colleague, Christi...Read More »
Note: This post is part four of four, excerpted from an article originally published in JustCoding. Read the first installment published on November 15. ...Read More »
The AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS had both its third and fourth quarter 2016 editions published at the same time this fall. The combined publication is very long—the longest I have ever reviewed—so let’s start by looking at some of the...Read More »
Note: This post is part three of four, excerpted from an article originally published in JustCoding. Read the first installment published on November 15. ...Read More »
I was looking through old drafts of blog posts and came upon some notes from ACDIS blogger Linda Renee Brown. She wrote that sometimes CDI professionals look for expert advice and that once they identify it, they follow it to the letter. But “What’s an expert...Read More »
The following white paper demonstrates the importance of implementing a career ladder and/or incentive program for your CDI staff. It provides sample models of each that hospitals can consider and adapt for their own use. The clinical documentation improvement (CDI) profession has grown from a...Read More »
Join our amazing ACDIS Boot Camp instructors beginning on December 5 in Charleston, South Carolina for a look at how documentation affects quality metrics, including Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) and hospital-acquired infections (HAI), and more....Read More »
This October celebrates the eight month anniversary of the February release of the intellectually stimulating, yet controversial, third international consensus ...Read More »
