CDI Management

There is no doubt about it—CDI specialists will be taking on more work and a greater complexity related to that work in 2014 due to the...Read More »

Years ago, the physician you saw for your annual checkup was the physician in charge of your care should  you need to be admitted to the hospital...Read More »

by James P. Fee, MD, CCDS, and Garry L. Huff, MD, CCS, CCDS

Certainly, the alphabetical and tabular index of the ICD-9-CM codebook...Read More »

U.S. News & World Report published two reports last month providing insight into the performance...Read More »

It took some time to break down the wall between coders and CDI specialists at New Hanover Regional Medical...Read More »

By Lois Mazza, CPC

In 2004, I passed the AAPC certification exam and became a certified professional coder. Since that time, I’ve...Read More »

When Kari S. Ellis, RN, accepted a CDI position at the small, 100-bed Daviess Community Hospital in Washington, Ind., she had no documentation...Read More »

What is the goal of a CDI program? Most of the ones I see still focus on DRG optimization. We need to make the physicians allies of our CDI...Read More »