The ACDIS Regulatory Committee, established in 2018, is tasked with the reviewing regulatory policy, coding, and clinical updates, commenting to agencies on behalf of ACDIS, and providing summary, interpretation, and analysis to ACDIS members.
The Committee kicked off a new initiative for...Read More »
The back of each attendee’s folder had a code written on it in black magic marker. G71.0, Muscular Dystrophy was written on mine. After James Manz, MD, CCD, CCDS-O and Peggy Hickman, MS, CCDS, CCS, CCRC presented on their outpatient CDI efforts, Hickman asked...Read More »
FEATURES 6 Interdepartmental collaboration for denials management 14 CDI leaders’ perspective on denials management 22 Sepsis and malnutrition denials
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Dawn Valdez RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, joined the ACDIS team officially at the beginning of 2020, as a full-time CDI education specialist. Since then, she’s been busy getting up to speed, hitting the road with Education Director Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, and...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
When people talk about CDI’s effect on an organization’s health, often they are referring to the traditional CC/MCC capture and DRG changes for financial improvement and accuracy associated with CDI reviews. Of course, we know that CDI professionals do so much...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
CDI teams have to work with other departments nearly daily in their line of work, be it the coding department, the clinical team, the quality department, or others. When it comes to denials management, this interdepartmental collaboration becomes even more...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
When I was a kid, my siblings would tease me. They’d tell me I was wrong, that I didn’t know what I was talking about. They’d say, “You’re in denial, and it ain’t just a river in Egypt.” Imagine a kid in pigtails sticking out her tongue and wagging her fingers...Read More »
