Changing payment models and the push for quality metrics and all-payer reviews are among the bigger shifts impacting clinical documentation integrity (CDI) programs in 2020. With such disruption, CDI leaders face an important question: What
This sample query escalation procedure was provided by Tonia Catapano, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, RHIA, director of coding and CDI at Yale New Haven (Connecticut) Health.
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In January of 2019 the Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) issued a national survey to leaders of CDI departments, including supervisors, managers, and directors, with the aim of getting quality data on three important initiatives affecting the CDI profession....