I previously started a conversation on CDI Talk entitled “Failed Programs,” hoping there might be someone willing to divulge an account of how and...Read More »
“Publicly marketed hospital rating systems of surgical quality such as the US News & World Report ‘America's Best Hospitals’ and HealthGrades...Read More »
The attached Unanswered query and query conflict escalation policy is a sample policy for handling unanswered physician queries and/or CDI/coding conflicts that require resolution. The policy is courtesy of Lynne Spryszak, RN, CCDS, CPC-A, CDI education director for HCPro, Inc.
Attached is the powerpoint presentation Organizational Definitions for Common Diseases: Why You Need Them and How to Get Them by Walker Robinson, MD, FACS, FAAP and Jens Yambert, MD, FACP, FACEP, physician advisors and members of the documentation improvement team at Carle Foundation...
Attached is the powerpoint presentation Using the “Dashboard” to Drive the CDI Process by Elizabeth Kennedy, RN, BS, CCS, CCDS, associate director for the documentation improvement program and Janet Kasoff, RN, EdD, NEA-BC, BC, CPHQ, CPHIMS, both from Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx,...
Attached is the powerpoint presentation Benchmarking CDI: A Study of 37 Academic Medical Centers by Kathy Vermoch, MPH, Project Manager, Quality Operations University HealthSystem Consortium and Donald A. Butler, RN, BSN, Manager, Clinical Documentation Improvement Pitt County Memorial...
Attached is the powerpoint presentation Using Data to Recharge Your CDI Program by Elizabeth Bonetti, RN, MA, MS, account management manager will Dell Services Revenue Cycle Solutions and co-manager of the revenue cycle at Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York.
Imagine sitting down to take an exam and the teacher tells you exactly what’s on the test. Not only that, but the teacher’s putting the answers up...Read More »
