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FEATURES
7 Picking last-minute ICD-10-CM/PCS priorities
We’ve rounded up our CDI and coding Boot Camp instructors and asked them to share their top three tasks to help you get your priorities straight and your facility set for ICD-10.

10 Last-minute ICD-10 training tips for documentation
By now, facilities should be past basic ICD-10 overview education. Now is the time to reinforce ICD-10 knowledge through refresher courses and training methods, says Robin Keeney, CCS, CCDS, director of revenue cycle services at VHC, Inc., in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.

23 Outpatient endeavors: HCC expansion tips
WellStar Health System pulled from its successful inpatient program and built its outpatient clinical documentation efforts from there.

DEPARTMENTS
4 Associate director’s note
ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation has the potential to improve patient care. It’s a story that CDI specialists need to help spread.

5 Note from the Advisory Board
Anny Pang Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, outlines why ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation matters so much and offers insight into the lingering challenges CDI programs face.

13 Ask ACDIS
Members of the ACDIS Advisory Board offer their insight into whether non-treating physicians can offer their responses to queries.

14 In the news
There are a lot of changes coming with ICD-10—including an update to the exam for the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) credential. Beginning in mid-January 2016, the exam will include ICD-10-related questions.

15 Meet a member
Romerl “Cris” Gumayagay, CCDS, CCS, CDIP, knows a thing or two about passion for CDI. The foreign medical graduate has been involved in CDI for more than five years and holds a CDI position at the  University of Southern California, Keck Medicine, in Los Angeles; he also volunteers with the California  ACDIS chapter.

17 Ask ACDIS
If the clinical indicators do not seem to support the diagnosis, it is the responsibility of the CDI/coding team to submit a query to the physician, says Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDI-P, CDI education director at ezDI.

19 Clinically speaking
Linda Renee Brown, RN, MA, CCDS, CCS, CDIP, discusses documentation opportunities associated with an initial venous thromboembolism event, pulmonary embolus, or deep vein thrombosis.

21 Coding Clinic for CDI
Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, reviews the latest guidance on root operation definitions.