2017 CDI Week Q&A: Clinical Validation

September 19, 2017
Q&As

As part of the seventh annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics.

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2017 CDI Week Webinar: Clinical Validation: Building Your Case and Defending Against Audits

September 13, 2017
Webinars

In this year's free CDI Week webinar, Boot Camp Instructors Laurie Prescott and Allen Frady review several common clinical validation opportunities and methods for effective query development and denial defense.

Q&A: Receiving query responses from providers

September 7, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 125
Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: Our hospital is having a hard time getting our physicians to respond to queries, do you have any suggestions on how to get them to...Read More »

The denials landscape: Physicians' perspectives

September 1, 2017
CDI Journal - Volume 11, Issue 5
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries, Denials & Appeals

No matter how thorough the documentation, no matter how precise the coding, denials still haunt the halls of most facilities. While many...Read More »

Guest Post, Part 2: Where do we stand with clinical validation?

August 31, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 122
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries

By Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS

At the 2017 ACDIS conference in May, Nelly Leon Chisen, RHIA...Read More »

Guest Post, Part 1: Where do we stand with clinical validation?

August 29, 2017
CDI Blog - Volume 10, Issue 120
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries, Denials & Appeals

By Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS

The 2017 Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting,...Read More »

Q&A: Identifying acceptable copy and paste activities in provider documentation

August 24, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 37
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Physician Queries

Q: What are some times when it...Read More »

Membership update: Quarterly conference call focused on clinical validation posted

August 22, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 37
ACDIS Guidance, Physician Queries, Education, Denials & Appeals

According to an ACDIS poll, 71% of respondents conduct clinical validation reviews. Listen to the Quarterly Membership Call to learn more about...Read More »

Membership update: Quarterly conference call Thursday, August 17 focuses on clinical validation

August 10, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 35
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries, Denials & Appeals

Clinical validation is definitely a hot topic in CDI right now. According to the 2017 CDI Industry Survey (which will be made available during CDI...Read More »

Q&A: Finding sepsis where there is none

August 3, 2017
CDI Strategies - Volume 11, Issue 34
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding, Physician Queries

Q: We recently reviewed a troubling case related to sepsis core extractions which...Read More »

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