When it comes to children’s hospitals, U.S. News and World Report is perhaps the most ubiquitous, and arguably, it uses the most clear-cut methodology for data abstraction.Read More »
Autumn Reiter, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI services for TrustHCS, based in Springfield, Missouri, will present “Five Pillars for Building a Successful CDI Program in Emergency Services and Other Outpatient Areas,” on Day 1 of the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI....Read More »
Most CDI programs start the same way: looking for CCs and MCCs to maximize the DRG for reimbursement purposes. But, as programs matured over the last decade or so, that mission has necessarily changed. Due to the wide variety of program expansion areas, however, one program’s definition of “...Read More »
CDI professionals wishing to earn support from program administrators to attend the “ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI” may adapt the following proposal.Read More »
Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, is a principal and co-founder of Pinson and Tang, LLC. Dr. Pinson will be presenting on Day 2 of the 2018 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI. The title of his presentation is “Diabetic complications...Read More »
Hussein Albishi, BSc HIM, CHIM, is an HIM/CDI consultant, with Vision Realization Office (VRO) for the Ministry of Health, in Saudi Arabia. He is the president of Saudi Health Information Management Associates, and was elected in 2016 by the International Federation for Health Information...Read More »
By Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, and Page Knauss, BSN, RN, LNC, ACM, CPC, CDEO
In many instances, the documentation for a particular service needs to be provided before the encounter. This is especially true for diagnostic tests such as MRI scans.Read More »
