"[Recovery Auditors] are doing a really good job at identifying the patients who don't have sepsis, and they're taking the money back," says ACDIS Advisory Board member Robert S. Gold, MD, CEO of DCBA, Inc., in Atlanta.
How nurses and doctors communicate—or don’t communicate—using health information technology is the focus of a multi-year study funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The life-and-death importance of nurse-physician...Read More »
Maintaining an organizational presence through the continued marketing of your CDI program is one of the most valuable steps you can take towards leveraging long-term success. Hospitals cannot afford to have their CDI program become an “out of sight, out...Read More »
When I started learning how to be an educator, I quickly learned the saying “seven times, seven ways.” The idea being we need to hear information repeatedly and receive it in a variety of ways before we are able to learn and...Read More »
A large number of hospitals across the country have some version of a CDI program in place. With ICD-10 implementation on our heels, it is recommended by AHIMA that all hospitals have a “mature” CDI program in place by October 1, 2014.
CDI professionals must educate facilities and physicians about the importance of accurately capturing the entire disease process because physicians, unfortunately, are frequently reluctant to document additional disease processes in the charts of patients who are obviously about to die.Read More »
Why meet a member when you can meet a team? Here are the folks from MaineGeneral Medical Center. They are all ACDIS members and all six ladies hold the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) credential. MaineGeneral Medical Center has campuses in Augusta and Waterville.Read More »
Third-party regulatory agencies often question the clinical validity of a physician’s diagnosis. Most hospitals have had a Recovery Auditor deny a claim due to lack of documentation identifying supportive clinical indicators in the medical record. But until recently, CDI specialists and coders...Read More »
