CDI Expansion

Karolyn Skudlarek, RN, and the CDI staff at St. Cloud (MN) Hospital have performed reviews of OB/ newborn documentation since they started...Read More »

Use the following checklist to communicate documentation requirements to pediatricians.Read More »

Use the following checklist as a quick reference to help you communicate documentation requirements to OB/GYN physicians.  Read More »

CDI programs are maturing, moving beyond review primarily of acute care Medicare patients. Two areas some hospitals have chosen to explore are OB/...Read More »

So you’ve made it through the rigors of the initial CDI program implementation stage. Now it’s all smooth sailing, right? Not so fast. You’ve got...Read More »

by Robert S. Gold, MD

by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS

A recent ACDIS blog post by Kimberly Richert, RN, CCDS...Read More »

by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS

Communication is defined in the Merriman-Webster dictionary as a verbal or...Read More »

by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS

A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists’ focuses on educating...Read More »

by Sylvia Hoffman, RN

A recent hospital audit of 300 medical records turned up some not too surprising facts about physicians. The...Read More »