Director’s Note: Quarterly Conference Call agenda includes query discussion, guidance from CMS contractors
February 16, 2012
CDI Strategies - Volume 6, Issue 4
The ACDIS quarterly conference call is scheduled for today, Thursday, February 16, from 1-2 p.m. ET. ACDIS members should have received dial-in instructions via e-mail. If you did not receive instructions, e-mail ACDIS Member Services Specialist Penny Richards at prichards@cdiassociation.com.
Recordings of all quarterly conference calls are posted as digital downloads on the ACDIS website.
The agenda includes:
- Introduction of new advisory board members; recap of vote
- Annual conference update
- Association updates
- CDI Professional of the Year: Nominations closed, awards at conference
- New local chapter map, chapters
- Glenn Krauss: NGS transmittal on “good practice” of documentation and physicians as partners. Note: Krauss will briefly reference a few recent transmittals issued by MACs; download them on our quarterly conference calls page.
- Pre-submitted questions from members and live Q&A
- Use of check boxes on query forms
- Queries post-discharge, pre final billing
- BMI, obesity, and queries
- Best practices for allocating CDS assignments (floor, unit, service, etc.)
- Medical necessity and collaboration with case management
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