News: Outpatient visits billed at increasingly higher levels, study suggests

March 23, 2023
CDI Strategies - Volume 17, Issue 12
News, Outpatient CDI

Outpatient visits are being billed at a higher level of complexity than they were in the past, according to a recent...Read More »

Podcast recap: Improving outpatient documentation inside and outside hospital walls

March 9, 2023
CDI Strategies - Volume 17, Issue 10
Outpatient CDI, Education

by A.J. Plunkett

Four years ago, when Tami McMasters Gomez, MHL, BS-HIM, CCDS, CDIP, the director of coding and...Read More »

Guest column: Impact of CDI in the emergency department

March 1, 2023
CDI Journal - Volume 17, Issue 2
CDI Expansion, Outpatient CDI

by Kathleen M. Romero, MSN, RN, EBP-C, Cynthia Beal, MBA-HCM, BSN, RN, and Renee Pate, MSOL, MSN Ed., RN, CCDS
In 2018, the South...Read More »

Guest column: A road map for a successful ambulatory CDI program

March 1, 2023
CDI Journal - Volume 17, Issue 2
CDI Expansion, Outpatient CDI

by Purvi Shah, MD
To start with some background, Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) are an increasingly important way to track...Read More »

Trekking into the unknown with outpatient CDI

March 1, 2023
CDI Journal - Volume 17, Issue 2
CDI Expansion, Outpatient CDI

by Jess Fluegel
Despite increased expansion into outpatient CDI over the past several years, there are plenty of hang-ups that stop...Read More »

ACDIS update: Join us in-person for the 2023 ACDIS Conference and the return of the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI!

December 8, 2022
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 54
ACDIS Guidance, Outpatient CDI, Education

With our final virtual event of 2022 ending today, the ACDIS team is turning our collective attention to the 2023 ACDIS national conference,...Read More »

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Succeeding with AI in a New Outpatient CDI Process

November 9, 2022
Free Resources
CDI Expansion, Outpatient CDI

As the growth of value-based plans continues to accelerate, outpatient, risk-based clinics should plan now on innovative ways to assist this rapid transition.  The growth of value-based plans continues to accelerate. Overall, between 2021 and 2025, value-based contracts are projected to grow to...

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ACDIS update: The ACDIS Online virtual outpatient event is only a month away!

November 3, 2022
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 49
ACDIS Guidance, Outpatient CDI

As CDI efforts continue to expand into new settings and areas of interest, getting direction from the trailblazers of outpatient CDI is essential...Read More »

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The Future of Outpatient CDI: How Providers are Leveraging CDI Teams and Technology to Optimize HCC Risk-adjusted Coding and Diagnosis Capture

October 31, 2022
Free Resources
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding, Outpatient CDI

As more organizations and physicians enter into risk-based compensation plans, they face the enormous responsibility of managing care for large patient populations with a range of complex medical conditions and diagnoses that must be documented to receive payment in the following calendar year....

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Outpatient CDI inside and outside the hospital walls

October 12, 2022
Outpatient CDI

Today’s guest is Tami McMasters Gomez, MHL, BS-HIM, CCDS, CDIP, the director of coding and CDI services at the University of California Medical Center at Davis in Sacramento. Today’s show is a...

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