I’ve received a few phone calls lately from people interested in the CDI profession. They want to know: Who are CDI specialists? Are they qualified to become one? It’s a difficult question to answer. Many hospitals require an RN licensure. Others use nurses in combination with HIM/coding...Read More »
It’s the end of the year, and many of us have been on the fast track to EHRs and EDMS installation, so we pause this month for a little levity and to honor all those working so hard behind the scenes. Happy holidays to all the brave...Read More »
I thought I’d discuss a few metrics I use which are not the standard metrics such as percentage of cases reviewed, query rate, response rate, agree rate, etc. One of my motivations in considering and reflecting on metric choices is to find fairly simple...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS
As CDI specialists, we find ourselves trying to keep the attention of our physician audience. The ability to positively engage the physician depends on continually illuminating the direct correlation between accurate and...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS
I recently received a fortune cookie from a colleague. After reading the fortune several times, I realized the hidden message certainly has direct relevance to CDI efforts toward affecting overall change in patterns of...Read More »
The reason for assignment of a certain principal diagnosis is occasionally incomprehensible. First, consider what a principal diagnosis is. It’s the condition or group of conditions that, after workup, the physician determines led to the patient requiring...Read More »
