CMS requires that orders for healthcare services be authenticated using either a handwritten or electronic signature. CMS has made it clear that stamped signatures are not an acceptable form of authentication and previous language in the CMS Program Integrity Manual required a “legible...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS
While riding the gondola at Snowbasin ski area last week in Utah, I had the opportunity to converse with a physician (who happened to be riding up the lift with me) regarding the field of CDI. His interpretation of CDI centered...Read More »
Despite the inclination of many hospital administrators to mechanize documentation and abstraction of quality measures, Kristen Geissler, MS, PT, MBA, CPHQ, associate director in the Healthcare Clinical Economics Practice at Navigant Consulting, Inc., in Baltimore, hasn’t heard of anyone able to...Read More »
So you’ve made it through the rigors of the initial CDI implementation stage. Now it’s all smooth sailing, right?
Not so fast. You’ve got to watch out for those storm clouds of regulatory changes and plot a way past any stagnant waters of staffing discontent. Simply stated: Maturing...Read More »
Too many organizations measure the effectiveness of their CDI program solely by an increase in Medicare case-mix index (CMI). This perspective is faulty for many reasons, but primarily because CMS frowns upon it. CMS views this practice as a strategy to...Read More »
Only 1.5% of the nearly 3,000 nonfederal hospitals in the United States reported the use of a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) system, according to a March report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. With so few facilities employing EMRs, why should CDI program managers...Read More »
