The ACDIS CDI Leadership Council serves the purpose of connecting leaders across the country for conversations about the hot topics and industry trends in CDI. A smaller subset of the Council, the Mastermind group, provides participants with an opportunity for focused brainstorming and problem-...
Healthcare analysts and industry experts are forecasting that operating margins will remain depressed for the remainder of 2021. Elective surgeries are once again being placed on hold as available physical space within the hospital walls is limited, and longstanding staff shortages continue and...
Patient risk and intervention opportunities require information, insight, and time - both difficult to find in today’s complex healthcare system. Discover how a personalized, proactive, and patient-focused approach to wellness and chronic disease management can help optimize outcomes and close...
Clinical documentation has shifted over the last decade by changing the scope of practice from CC/MCC capture that allowed for DRG shifts to focusing on the importance of quality measures, clinical validation, denial management and HCC capture for risk adjustment purposes. These changes have...
In the early days of the clinical documentation integrity (CDI) industry, the focus was overwhelmingly financial in nature. CDI professionals reviewed records focused simply on capturing comorbid complicating conditions (CC) and major CCs (MCC) for accurate code assignment and reimbursement....
Clinical documentation has shifted over the last decade by changing the scope of practice from CC/MCC capture that allowed for DRG shifts to focusing on the importance of...
Did you know that only about 24% of CDI professionals round with physicians on the floor as part of their typical duties, or that 65% of CDI departments who have a physician advisor share this person with another department? Did you know that the average amount of new charts reviewed per day by...
Gone are the days when clinical documentation integrity (CDI) professionals had to work with paper medical records and queries or scan documents into a rudimentary electronic health record (EHR) system. As the CDI...
The pandemic turned a new page for CDI. Much of the workforce has gone remote, payment has shifted towards value-based purchasing, and risk-based models. The world of CDI has changed and adapting to the new technology is the path of the future.
CDI leaders’ responsibilities are varied and far reaching. Rather than going the journey alone, leaders can gain valuable insight by connecting with peers outside their organizations to collaborate, trade advice, and share challenges and successes.
