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Ask ACDIS: Assessing staff, verbal queries, and fiscal outcomes

Members of the ACDIS Advisory Board answered the following questions during its November Quarterly Membership Conference Call:

  • How long does it take for new CDI specialists to become proficient in the role?
  • Our CDI program does a lot of verbal queries. Do you have any suggestions for how to assess query etiquette and how we should be tracking those?
  • We track how our query efforts affect MS-DRG assignment. Should we (individual CDI specialists) take credit for a shift in assignment even if the query or queries we left didn’t really affect that assignment?

 

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