Suzanne Megown, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, is a CDI specialist at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri, and a member of the St. Louis ACDIS chapter, AHIMA, the Missouri component of AHIMA, and eHIMA. A CDI specialist for the past nine years, she worked in pain management...Read More »
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7 The creepy-crawlies: Avoiding CDI scope creep
11 The buck stops here: CDI escalation policies
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Outpatient CDI is a different beast than CDI performed in the inpatient hospital setting. The volume of encounters is significantly higher, as is the speed of the visit and the turnover of patients. Trying use the same processes for clarifying documentation with...Read More »
By Melissa Varnavas
There’s a photo of my mom and dad from the winter of 2015, snow piles towering over them on either side. That year the Boston area received blizzard after blizzard. We still call it (with a nod to J.K. Rowling) the winter-that-shall-not-be-named.
By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC
One pitfall many CDI professionals face is one I faced myself in my early years. As a young CDI professional, I stressed to everyone, “I am not a coder.”
I still say that to people who ask me very specific questions related to...Read More »
Whether your local chapter has been around for five years or five minutes, finding new members to participate in networking events can be difficult. To help you find some new CDI friends, ACDIS assembled a few tips.Read More »
“DRG validation can mean many things in many different arenas,” Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI staffing services at TrustHCS, said on the January 3 episode of ACDIS Radio, “New approaches in DRG validation.” “Essentially, it’s ensuring a correct final...Read More »
