Q: I have a question about provider education and query escalations in a remote world. What is your provider education process? Are your frontline CDI staff facilitating regular provider education or do you have a designated CDI physician educator or team of CDI that facilitate on a...Read More »
Q: I am working on streamlining our templates and would love to include the standard definitions of certain diagnoses, such as malnutrition, to help remind the providers of certain criteria within the body of the template. For instance, I would like to include the Global Leadership...Read More »
Q: Our team had a question regarding the criteria for chronic respiratory failure. The ACDIS Pocket Guide states the criteria “typically requires continuous oxygen support,” so do patients just need to be on continuous oxygen to meet it?
Doximity and Curative’s 2023 Physician Compensation Report reveals several concerning trends among physicians, including lower compensation, a pronounced gender pay gap, and physician burnout....Read More »
Q: If a provider answers “yes” or “no” to a yes/no query on the actual query template, does the provider also need to document their diagnosis in a note? If the query is part of the permanent medical record, does that answer on the query template suffice and eliminate the need for...Read More »
When we talk about provider engagement, people most often mean working with physicians —but given the large umbrella of medical professionals, including but not limited to physician assistants, nurse practitioners, surgeons, etc., it’s a diverse purview. One topic...Read More »
At ACDIS, we recognize that the world of CDI is constantly evolving, and physicians are playing greater roles in this area than ever before. Consequently, we’re looking to understand the nuances of physician advisors’ roles: What are your primary responsibilities? Are you still practicing...Read More »
Q: If the radiology or pathology report stated ovarian cancer but the physician never documented an ovarian mass, is it true you can’t use a present on admission (POA) query to capture the ovarian cancer because the physician made no reference to it? Would you need to use either an...Read More »