Ever make mud pies? A hose running rivers in the backyard sandbox or a collection of buckets and throwaway pie tins lining an oversized puddle...Read More »
With special guest Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCDS, board certified internist and CDI and ICD-10 physician advisor for Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas, and co-host Paul...
With special guests Kelli Horn, RHIT, CCS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, director of coding education and HIM revenue cycle support at Ardent Health Services, and ...
The following white paper demonstrates the importance of implementing a career ladder and/or incentive program for your CDI staff. It provides sample models of each that hospitals can consider and adapt for their own use.
The number of respondents to ACDIS’ 2016 CDI Salary Survey increased to more than 1,000—up from just over 800 in 2015. Unfortunately, the increased participation didn’t correlate to a large bump in salary ranges. Salaries of those in the $70,000–$79,999 range rose by just 2%, as did those...
As part of the sixth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.
The healthcare reimbursement landscape is changing resulting in penalties for organizations with perceived poorer quality of care and less than optimal patient outcomes. CDI Programs are imploding to support the morphing focus on “quality” documentation which results in the accurate...
The latest short-term Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is available for acute care hospitals nationwide,...Read More »
