Over the past several years there have been a number of conversations that touch on physician leadership involvement with CDI. Programs can and do achieve success, but so much more is achieved when there is a proactive and supportive medical voice.
Members of the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) advisory board recently provided commentary on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proposed changes to the fiscal year 2012 ICD-9-CM codes, as detailed in the March 9-10, 2011 Diagnosis Agenda...Read More »
Can you begin to imagine how complex a piece of great literature would be in we had to include complete documentation of each medical incident? Or have to stop every time we have to develop physician queries?
Let’s take a look at the classic tale Gone...Read More »
There has been much discussion based on what Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) and other state and federal regulatory bodies are doing or what their next move will be (though does anybody really know?!?).
We’ve all heard the stories of denials of well...Read More »
Nearly 550 CDI professionals have registered to attend the 4th Annual ACDIS Conference in Orlando, April 7–8. That means more of your peers will be available to network with, share experiences with, and learn from. It also means that those who have already made their reservations have booked up...Read More »
More than half of CDI programs employ physician advisors, but those that do typically find their efforts ineffectual, according to the 2011 Physician Advisor Benchmarking Survey. More than 300 people responded to the survey, with nearly 60% indicating that their CDI program employed a physician...Read More »
The next quarterly conference call for ACDIS members will be held on Thursday, February 24, 1-2 p.m. ET. ACDIS members have received a phone number and password via e-mail to call into the program. ACDIS quarterly conference calls are one-hour, live telephone conferences offered as a means for...Read More »
By the time you’re reading this note, the first-ever Clinical Documentation Improvement Week will be in the record books. I hope you made the most of it.
Almost since the start of ACDIS back on October 1, 2007, our members have been asking (“clamoring” might be a better word) for a week...Read More »
