FEATURES 9 Taking your first step in outpatient CDI 15 Don’t let behavior health reviews psych you out 20 Go big, or go home health 27 CDI in skilled...Read More »
“Outpatient CDI isn’t just inpatient CDI in an emergency department or clinic,” wrote ACDIS Director Brian Murphy in an article regarding the 2019 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI in Austin, Texas. “It’s a different skillset, and it’s a different mindset.”
For some programs, the expansion into psychiatric units or facilities may be driven by the needs of the patient population, says Rhonda Mark, RN, BS, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Vero Beach,...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
One of the most fun things I get to do as the ACDIS editor is work with some of our committees—namely, the annual CDI Week planning committee and the...Read More »
“In my current role, I really don’t have an average day,” says Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, system director of CDI and coding at Baptist Health System in Louisville, Kentucky, of her day-to-day work in a home health CDI program.
While most traditional inpatient CDI efforts...Read More »
Like many other non-acute care settings, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) have not been a common setting for CDI department development. While there’s been a small faction of CDI professionals working in SNFs since the beginnings of CDI, the last few months have brought many more programs into...Read More »
ACDIS members are invited to participate in the ACDIS Quarterly Membership Conference Calls throughout the year of 2020. The upcoming year’s calls are:Read More »
Over the last few months, ACDIS has conducted a series of polls on the state of staffing for CDI programs and surrounding departments. According to the results, the three “feeder professions” for CDI (physicians, nursing, and coding) are feeling the strain of a limited workforce—more than 75% of...Read More »
