Unlike the inpatient CDI world, there aren’t many outpatient tracking tools premade and available through vendors, so newly minted programs are often left to develop and rollout homegrown solutions. Developing an outpatient CDI tracking tool can be a long, arduous, and sometimes overwhelming...Read More »
Next week (Wednesday, March 27), I’ll be taking my CDI State of the Industry virtual road show to California and Minnesota (see the listing of local chapter upcoming events). Every year, I work with the ACDIS editorial and administrative teams to delve into...Read More »
The deadline to submit a speaker application for the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI is tomorrow, March 15. This year’s event will be held November 14-15, at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas. ...Read More »
“We felt that if we had our own internal dedicated team, we could watch [CDI efforts] much more closely,” said Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, system director of CDI and coding at Baptist Health System in Louisville, Kentucky, when asked about bringing their home health CDI program in-house instead...Read More »
By Jennifer Boles, CPC, CRC
Before starting an ambulatory or outpatient CDI program, those tasked with the project must first create some universal definitions so everyone is on the same page and speaking the same language. Consider asking:
By Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
CDI specialists who have been around for a while might recall how in 2007 CMS implemented the Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) system. This variation to the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) linked reimbursement...Read More »
Starting out in CDI can be daunting. You have to learn the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, learn about MCCs and CCs, how to exclude patient safety indicators (PSI), how to use Coding Clinics, learn new computer programs—the...Read More »
