CDI Management

After two-plus years of tight educational and staffing budgets, the CDI field is undergoing a bit of a hiring boom, allowing teams to expand to new review areas and deepen their existing ones. Determining when to hire and how to orient and train new staff members can be challenging, though. And...

Ensuring accurate documentation, capturing a true clinical picture, and pushing quality objectives are always front of mind for CDI teams. Yet CDI leaders also can’t ignore that revenue is becoming a more critical component as hospitals face bottom-line losses due to COVID-19. As leaders strive...

Few metrics are as widely used—and as widely misunderstood—as case mix index (CMI). Understanding the complexities of CMI, and effectively communicating CMI trends and fluctuations with organizational administration, is still critical for CDI leaders. This ACDIS white paper offers a review of...