By Melissa Varnavas
Over the past few months, the ACDIS leadership team has been dutifully revising the association’s five-year strategic plan. Strategic planning provides clarity, direction, and focus for any individual, program, or organization. It ties a mission and vision...Read More »
According to a recent ACDIS poll, 58% of respondents currently conduct retrospective chart reviews, and another 5% say they have plans to expand into retrospective reviews soon. While some of those 58% review pre-billing and others post-billing, the goal for retrospective reviews remains the...Read More »
ACDIS is built by many hands outside of the full-time administrative team. While in years past, we’ve put out individual calls for our ACDIS boards and committees, this year we’re trying something a little different: We’re calling for...Read More »
CDI professionals often work with physicians and coders, but record reviews also lend themselves to collaboration with case management. Part of a case manager’s job is to look at documentation in the medical record from the standpoint of medical necessity, meaning the justification for the...Read More »
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to get more involved with CDI and ACDIS, we have a suggestion for you: The Journal is ACDIS’ bimonthly publication which includes regulatory information, news, clinically-based articles, case studies, and membership profiles. Many of those...Read More »
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to get more involved with CDI and ACDIS, we have a suggestion for you: The Journal is ACDIS’ bimonthly publication which includes regulatory information, news, clinically-based articles, case studies, and membership profiles. Many of those...Read More »
By Julian Everett, BSN, RN, CDIP
I clearly remember the day my director told me I’d be reviewing our pediatric mortality cases. I didn’t know where to begin, and our pediatric CDI program was only a year old. Before I could start tackling the problem, I had to learn as much about...Read More »
The following is a list of upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters. If you have an upcoming event you would like to include, please email Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Linnea Archibald (...Read More »
