CDI is often called the bridge between the coding and clinical worlds, but many other avenues for interdepartmental collaboration also exist. The January/February edition of...Read More »
FEATURES 7 CDI’s role in retrospective reviews 13 CDI–case management collaboration 18 Local chapter financial planning 26 Systemwide outpatient CDI...Read More »
By Melissa Varnavas
Over the past few months, the ACDIS leadership team has been dutifully revising the association’s five-year strategic plan. Strategic planning provides clarity, direction, and focus for any individual, program, or organization. It ties a mission and vision...Read More »
CDI professionals often work with physicians and coders, but record reviews also lend themselves to collaboration with case management. Part of a case manager’s job is to look at documentation in the medical record from the standpoint of medical necessity, meaning the justification for the...Read More »
Even on a small scale, knowing where to start with an outpatient CDI program implementation can leave leaders at a loss. Add in the complications of a large healthcare system and things can get even hairier. With multiple sites and teams dispersed geographically, there’s a lot to consider before...Read More »
by Tammy Trombley, RHIT, CDIP, CCDS
Recently, an outpatient CDI review project at a large family practice/internal medicine physician clinic identified numerous coding errors on physician-coded claims. More than half of the errors affected risk adjustment for the CMS-Hierarchical...Read More »
by Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
Physician support in the CDI decision-making process from the CDI program’s inception helps physicians see beyond the immediate obligation of documentation to the greater good such documentation...Read More »
by Johanne Brautigam, RN, BSN, CCDS and Mindy Davis, RHIT, CDIP, CCS, CCDS
Career ladders are a relatively new concept for CDI. With the adoption of the inpatient and outpatient CDI programs, there is a greater need for a ladder program because there will likely be individual...Read More »
