Do you know a CDI professional who goes above and beyond their daily duties to advance the CDI profession, help their colleagues, and move the needle on CDI outcomes at your facility? Consider nominating them for one of this year’s ACDIS Achievement Awards.
The ACDIS advisory board is conducting an ongoing educational series on provider engagement. As part of this series, the board has developed a survey to gather data on the relationship between provider engagement efforts, provider buy-in, and their impact on CDI chart review productivity.Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Few things evoke such a visceral response from CDI professionals as the phrase “payer denial.” Organizations with which I am familiar deal with constantly increasing payer denial volumes and continually evolving denial strategies as...Read More »
Merle Zuel, RN, CCDS, is a CDI advisor at Kansas City VA Medical Center (KCVA) and an active member of ACDIS’ Kansas City chapter since 2018. He is a member of the 2020/2021 ACDIS CDI Leadership Council and earned his CCDS this year.
FEATURES 6 Starting out in CDI (B) 10 Case study: Taking physician education virtual (B, I, A) 15 Expanding your CDI department (A) 23 CDI...Read More »
By Linnea Archibald
The ACDIS team has been working remotely from home since March 16. At the time of this edition’s publication, we’ve been home for 169 days. Of course, the ACDIS team aren’t the only ones who’ve been social distancing and working remotely. As of ...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
CDI professionals come to the field from a myriad of backgrounds. While ACDIS’ previous survey data shows that most of our members arrive at CDI from a clinical background beginning in bedside nursing, the ranks are filled out by those from coding/health...Read More »